Jury of my Peers?

The jury selection process in the United States is corrupted. The system is designed to justify the actions of the rich and to condemn the reactions of the poor.  In the court system, a rich defendant can pay a lawyer to get them out of any situation.  Where as poor defendants have to be defended by low paid over worked public defenders.  The high paid well-trained lawyers are trained to know how to corrupt a jury in many ways; this situation must change.  It can be changed in the way a jury is selected.  

The first step in changing the jury selection process is to include not only registered voters but also registered drivers and tax payers.  The system today chose jury participants from the list of registered voters in the area of the court.  This is unfair because only about a third of Americans are registered to vote.  One way of correcting this unjust system is to allow registered drivers to be selected to participate in the jury system.  The majority of Americans are registered drivers, and there would be a more diverse group of people able to participate in the jury system if registered drivers are allowed to participate, not just voters.  Another, method to get a more diverse group of participants would be to select participants from tax information; the government has tax information on all of its working adult citizens.  Since all Americans have to pay taxes at one time in their lives, using tax information to chose jury participants would be a great solution to the problem of finding diverse jurors to participate in the justices system.  Through these changes all defendants will be able to select from a diverse group of participants, so he or she will be able to select a jury of his or her peers.  

Step two in improving the jury selection process is by banning the media from the courtroom.  The media has corrupted the jury system in mainly two ways.  One way it has corrupted the jury system is by convicting a defendant in the public eye even before the case has come to trail.  One example of this is the Sean Puffy Combs case.  The man was railroaded by the media before the trail that was the main reason it was hard for his lawyers to select jurors that did not feel he was guilty of the crime.  Also, the media can cause problems for the jury selection process by creating celebrities out of jurors.  After a big trail is over, jurors who participated in the trail are offered book deals and even television appearances just because they were involved in a hot case that made big ratings on television.  This can lead to people participating in the jury process to just become celebrities, not to determine justice.  Through these two examples the media has corrupted the jury system and should be force out of the justice process altogether.