>Jurists should be professionals, not a random nobody pulled from the community. [...] In the new system, professional jurists would be paid for by the courts,

>Jurists should be professionals, not a random nobody pulled from the community. [...] In the new system, professional jurists would be paid for by the courts, but not directly employed by them or the government. Jurist are as impartial as you can get. Making someone a paid professional jurist doesn't magically strip them of all their biases. Courts are intimately familiar with this, precisely when they ask jurists "Do you think Police are less likely to lie under oath than a normal person" in voir dire because judges know that police are just as corruptible as the rest of us. Your proposal is basically creating a system by which a lawyer cannot ensure that your are judged by a jury of your peers. The problems with the judicial system are people based /not/ jury based. Jury duty is the one chance that citizens can make a direct action in the power of the state and you are proposing changing that and some how having the government to pay that person but also simultaneously not being paid by the government.