In July, Bonora Rountree commissioned a survey to explore California residents’ views about their willingness to serve as jurors during the pandemic and the conditions under which they would be willing to serve. The survey was conducted online and included 295 jury-eligible residents proportionally drawn from within California’s 58 counties.
Survey respondents were asked to rank, on a 1 to 5 scale, their level of comfort with seven different activities, with 1 being “Extremely Uncomfortable” and 5 being “Extremely Comfortable.” The chart below shows that survey respondents were more uncomfortable serving as a juror than any of the other activities we explored. Nearly three-quarters of the respondents (74%) expressed options conveying the most discomfort with serving as a juror.