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Bill proposes lowering jury age

February 4, 1997
By: Susan Batt
State Capital Bureau

If you are 18, registered to vote and have a drivers license you might be eligible for jury duty if Missouri lawmakers pass a current proposal. Susan Batt has the story.

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If you are 18-years old in Missouri, you can vote. You can go to war. You can get married, and you can file suit. But you can not serve on a jury.

For the sixth year in a row, Kansas City Representative Mary Bland is trying to change that.

Alvin Stykes, a victims rights advocate in Kansas City, says he supports Bland's idea.

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OutCue: "...then you should be able to serve on a jury."
Contents: He says that if 18-year-olds can be given the death penalty by a jury, they should be eligible to sit on a jury.

Missouri and Mississippi are the only two states with a jury age limit of 21.

In Jefferson City, I'm Susan Batt.