A total of 5,842 people were summoned as citizen judges to 50 district courts from the start of the first lay judge trial last August up until the end of the year, but 622 of them, or just under 11 percent, failed to show up, a tally indicated Wednesday.
No one, however, is believed to have been fined for their failure to appear.
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