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GRUSS v. STATE

No. 4D02-4189.

869 So.2d 770 (2004)

Michelle GRUSS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 14, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Susan D. Cline, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Donna L. Eng, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

FARMER, C.J.

Jury duty is a badge of citizenship. It is also the cornerstone of our system of justice. If citizen jurors can avoid this duty with impunity, the system would be compromised and justice denied. In presiding over the selection of jurors, trial judges are engaged in a highly sensitive exercise. They must balance the need for those citizen jurors summoned to do their duty, against an understandable distaste for...

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