The eyes are on me. I have been summoned.
Anyone had to do this before? How was it?
Anyone had to do this before? How was it?
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The eyes are on me. I have been summoned.
Anyone had to do this before? How was it?
Dang! I was actually kind of hoping to get out of work! lol.I've been called twice but the cases were dismissed before I had to do anything. I think this happens most of the time. The first time was approximately 18 years ago and I had to go to the courthouse and wait around all day before they told me to leave (pain in the butt). The other time was a year or so ago and there was a phone number I called the day before I was to report that told me whether to show up or not. I was told by a recording not to show up.
I think it will be interesting as well. I WANT to get picked for a case. Hey, I watch Law and Order:SVU, I'm sure it's exactly the sameI served on a grand jury once. It was an arson case. We just had to decide whether it should go to jury trial, and only took 1 day. I found it very interesting, and I asked one of the witnesses' if he was afraid for his life. He was.
Probably make those decisions on feelings no more as often, and/or often on, which side told the best lies, and/or told them best, bad lie but good liar is what I'm sayin'.I served on a burglary case. I was 18 years old. In deliberation each of us started off by commenting one idea of what we thought was key to the case. After our comments the jury voted on making me the jury foreman. "Give it to the kid" I recall them saying. And the kid was too young and naive to decline. The first vote came out 11 not guilty and 1 guilty. I stood alone. After a little over an hour of deliberating I changed my vote because of the sloppy work of the police and weak case by the DA (who later went on to become the county judge) and there was a very small level of reasonable doubt.
I found out people on juries make their decisions based on feelings as much as evidence.
The eyes are on me. I have been summoned.
Anyone had to do this before? How was it?