[loteck]

Why can't society compensate this person fairly for his help?

[notJim]

As others say, society does to some degree, but isn't the real compensation for such things living in a society where people help each other in these circumstances? Not everything has to be a financial transaction.

[garmaine]

It can. He should be able to invoice the DA for his time. The taxpayers (society) foots the bill.

[threwawasy1228]

As someone who just served Jury Duty in the USA. I can tell you the 'bill' for my services was barely minimum wage.

[ghaff]

Last time I got called for jury duty (but didn't get chosen), I forget what the per diem rate was but basically it wouldn't have covered parking (or at least not by much).

[garmaine]

Jury Duty is not the same as being served a subpoena for the prosecution.

[authoritarian]

Fortunately it's incredibly easy to get eliminated during the selection process if you know how to answer the questions

[xeromal]

Then we end up with a jury that has only people that have nothing better to do

[threwawasy1228]

I purposefully decided not to attempt to use a bunch of excuses to get out of it actually, because I was interested in the experience.

[garmaine]

And without lying / perjuring yourself either. Telling the selective truth is enough :)