To privacy, to be free from harassment and to choose whether or not to dicuss the verdict.

To be treated courteously and with the respect due and officer of the court and to serve in a jury room with attention to physical comfort and convenience.

To have the trial process explained.

To safe passage to and from the courthouse.

To proper compensation for jury service.

To have input into scheduling and have schedules kept when possible.

To be randomly selected for jury service and not excluded on the basis of race, sex,religion, physical disability, of country of origin.

To be instructed on the law in plain language.

To have judges and lawyers be sensitive to and supportive of the needs of jurors resulting from jury service.

To express concerns, complaints and recommendations to courthouse authorities.

To be free from exposure to billboards erected in proximity to the courthouse, placed by special interest groups or actual parties to a lawsuit who are attempting to influence their verdict.

What if…

• You could help jurors reach more reasoned, thoughtful decisions?

• You could significantly speed up the jury deliberation process?

• You could gift yourself and juries with life-long thinking skills proven in the corporate world for more than two decades?

Would you consider giving the process a trial run?

Could you afford not to?

This Blog’s passion is to provide jurors with an innovative method of reaching just decisions, bringing the jury deliberation process into the 21st century. Consider the evolution and continuous improvements to other court processes; then take a thoughtful look at the jury system. A number of initiatives are in process to help juries, but no one is focused on providing a framework or structure to improve group discussions, and most jurors do not have any given skills. Sadly, this process that is most sorely in need of change.

Help jurors reach more reasoned, thoughtful decisions In its simplest form, Fair and Just Deliberations with Parallel Thinking looks at an issue from a selected sequence of directions and from a shared language. The process offers a collaborative approach for thinking, separating fact from emotion and neutral information from biased opinion.

Most judicial system employees, including judges, don’t know about the existing deliberation jury process—the awkwardness, the struggles, the fact jurors aren’t trained to do this. Judges don’t understand the significance of this because they never served on a jury.