A Newark nonprofit has been urging state lawmakers for years to change the current law.
Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday endorsed an effort to allow people with criminal histories to serve on courtroom juries, arguing state law wrongly prohibits those who have paid their debt to society from performing “a fundamental civic duty.”
“By connecting jury service to criminal convictions, New Jersey imports racism into the jury service process – whitewashing our juries and impeding the right to a jury of one’s peers, while also disproportionately precluding Black community members from serving on juries,” reads Most states have laws prohibiting people convicted of certain serious offenses from serving on juries, but New Jersey is one of a handful with a lifetime jury duty ban for people convicted of crimes ranging from murder to lesser drug charges.before the state Legislature would lift the ban for most former prisoners, though some versions of the legislation would continue to prohibit anyone convicted of murder from serving.
Now Murphy is telling lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Legislature to send the measure to him to sign.
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