Gruss v. State

Jury duty is a badge of citizenship. It is also the cornerstone of our system of jus*771tice. 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 imposing extraordinary sacrifice on any individual thus called.

We recognize the problem inherent in punishing jurors. We also recognize, however, the importance of enforcing this citizen…