ALLEN COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - The Allen County Common Pleas Court judges may have found that some of their issues are coming from how they're looking for enough potential jurors to show up for jury duty. Judges Jeffrey Reed and Terri Kohlrieser held a press conference today to talk about their findings.
Ohio company JuryTRAC assisted the court in compiling the random lists of potential jurors that Allen County uses in jury trials. JuryTRAC gets their list of eligible jurors from the Allen County Board of Elections, of people who voted in a general election over the last four years. Then JuryTRAC shrinks that list down to give to the Allen County Common Pleas Court. But what the judges have found that the process that JuryTRAC uses, included names of people on lists from a few years ago, may have moved out of the county, passed away, or are otherwise unqualified to be on that list.
"Well when we have a jury, we call, we go to the list that has been provided by JuryTRAC to pull our jurors for that particular trial and because how they process information, and shrunk big lists that the board of elections is given, that has been shrunk down, so when we call for jurors we are getting names that shouldn't be on there," explained Judge Jeffrey Reed.
The judges still believe that mail delivery, like getting a summons in time and to the right address, still could be another issue for low potential juror turnout.
