{"id":24387,"date":"2020-09-25T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=24387"},"modified":"2020-09-24T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:14:09","slug":"odds-of-jury-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/odds-of-jury-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds Of Jury Duty \u2013 What Are Your Chances Of Getting Called Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Ever wondered when you might get called in for jury service?\nIf you\u2019re not quite sure what jury duty is, in a nutshell, it\u2019s this: a citizen\nis summoned to court and expected to serve as a juror during a legal\nproceeding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If selected from a pool of potential jurors, you\u2019ll then\nbecome part of a jury comprised of 12 – 15 members of the public, who will be\nrequired to sit in on a court hearing and help to decide the outcome of a\ncriminal trial. This can take days, or sometimes even weeks or months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But just how likely are you to be called for jury service? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019ve done the research for citizens of the US and the UK, so you can see the odds of being a juror in your lifetime. It\u2019s time for the cross-examination\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It stands to reason that, as the third largest country in the world by population<\/a>, your chances of being a juror in the US would be less than usual, among a crowd of over 331 million people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But with so many people potentially comes more\ncrime too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surprisingly, there\u2019s not much recent detail on the chances of being a juror in the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But we did manage to dig out reports of a 2012 survey by the Defense Research Institute (DRI) that stated that 27% of adults in the US<\/a> had \u201cserved on a jury at some point in their lives\u201d, per some insightful analysis from the opinion poll site FiveThirtyEight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It could also depend on the state or even the borough you call home, as the New York post revealed<\/a> that \u201cin any given year, 450,000 people can get called to serve on state and federal juries in Manhattan alone\u201d. Jeez. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you live in the UK, your odds of being\ncalled up to the jurors\u2019 benches differ depending on which one of the four\nnations you\u2019re in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the BBC, who quote statistics lecturer Deirdre Toher, the chance of being called for jury service in Scotland is \u201capproximately 95% across the 53 years of typical eligibility\u201d<\/a>, from 18 to around 70. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although this is based upon people receiving\nletters with requests to serve, with the odds of actually being selected for\nthe benches on a Scottish jury dropping to roughly 30%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The higher figures in Scotland are based on\njuries that are made up of 15 members of the public, while Wales and England\nonly require 12 citizens to complete a jury. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The BBC states that, according to the Ministry\nof Justice, people from Wales and England have a 35% chance of \u201cbeing\nsummoned\u2026over the course of their lifetime\u201d with only around half of those\ncalled actually serving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There was no reliable or specific information\non Northern Ireland\u2019s odds at the time of writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOdds Of Jury Duty In The UK<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n