Just got home from jury duty

The selected 60 of us as a jury pool for an assault on an officer case. The felon took a look at the jury pool and took a 10-year jail plea.

What did you all look like?????

Of the 60 of us, I'd say 55 were white or hispanic, with gray hair being the hat of choice. You do the math.

Both my mom and my cousin are in the jury duty pools. Mom's number hasn't been called yet.

She really is nervous about duty-I'm sure she will let me know if she has to appear.

Originally Posted by mrblanche

The selected 60 of us as a jury pool for an assault on an officer case. The felon took a look at the jury pool and took a 10-year jail plea.

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Wow - the prosecution got lucky

I was so excited when I got jury duty for a drug case - until I had to inform the ADA that I was casually acquainted with the arresting officer! I hadn't recognized his name when filling out the questionnaire, and didn't know whether to keep my mouth shut once he'd testified. Luckily, I did say something, because he'd immediately informed the ADA that he "knew" me.

Talk about an uncomfortable situation. The judge hauled the attorneys and us off to his chambers, and didn't seem to understand how we could have been casually acquainted by first names only because we frequented the same tavern on Friday evenings for 5 or 6 years, and I thought he (the cop) was a musician, I was only 2 years past the legal drinking age at the time, and the tavern in question was owned by a retired cop and his cop brother, who "should have known" that I was underage, as the co-owner who was a cop worked with my then significant other. What a mess!

Luckily, he decided not to pursue the "irregularities", and simply dismissed me as a juror. Never again!

A Mark Twain quote about juries:

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
- 4th of July speech 1873