Grand Jury Pay Cut Because of Slow Economy ; in an Effort to Trim the Budget, Officials Also Are Making It Easier for Jurors to Waive the Fee.

Dayton Daily News › April 22, 2009

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XENIA -- Common Pleas Court and county officials are cutting the pay and making it easier for jurors to opt out of getting paid to lower jury costs by as much as 30 percent.

County commissioners approved a measure April 7, at court officials' request, lowering the weekly pay for grand jurors from $15 to $10 a week. Trial jurors will continue to receive $10 a day, $15 if they are chosen for a jury.

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Grand Jury Pay Cut Because of Slow Economy ; in an Effort to Trim the Budget, Officials Also Are Making It Easier for Jurors to Waive the Fee.

Jurors also will serve two weeks instead of one week, w...

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