Opinion | D.C. residents, get ready for jury duty. Again. And again.

Absent from the discussion about the criminal code update in D.C. is any thought to the jurors who will now have to decide misdemeanor cases. D.C. residents, according to D.C. Courts, already are summoned to serve, on average, once every two years. Our neighbors in Maryland and Virginia cannot serve more than once every three years, and in practice, usually much less.

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