People enter the Arapahoe County Justice Center on Tuesday, the first day of jury selection in the trial of James Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and wounding at least 70 others at an Aurora movie theater on July 20, 2012. (Andy Cross, Denver Post file)
Re: “Aurora theater shooting trial could strain limits of jury service,” Jan. 19 news story.
Your article on extended jury duty was an eye opener. The notion that jurors are expected to serve at a trial that may last up to five months while being paid $50 a day is preposterous. Citizens do have a responsibility to serve on a jury – but only for a reasonable period of time. To think that jurors, in the quest for justice, have a duty to invite both mental trauma and financial ruin is nothing less than lunacy.
Guy Wroble,Denver
This letter was published in the Jan. 22 edition.
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