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Canadian Government Conducts Background Checks on Jurors

Here is one way to narrow the jury pool; conduct background checks on all prospective jurors.  That would certainly be a revelation.  When it is declared you will be judged by your peers, there is no exaggeration in a good many cities.   Those with genuine hands-on experience will be sitting in on criminal cases.

Canada, had made  it a practice to conduct background checks on its prospective jurors.    Get this.   The Canadian legal system wants to be sure that prospective candidates are not lying about their backgrounds in hopes of being selected for jury duty.    The process was halted  last May.  Try that here in the United States where everyone with any sense or not overly possessed with a great sense of civic duty is trying desperately to get out of jury duty.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.