Jury Duty Experiences

zoeydoggie
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:18:38 +0000

I served many years ago. The jury pool served for a month and I ended up in three different trials. The part that amazed me was that some of the same people showed up as witnesses in more than one, and there was no connection other than they all drank a lot and tended to end up in the same part of the city.

We had drama. An elderly lady was on the jury with a bunch of us young people. She thought we needed more time to think about things and we were sure we’d heard enough and thought plenty. Now that I’m older I wonder what I would think.

My favorite funny part- We heard all the arguments for a murder trial. We went into the jury room and just sat and looked at each other. No one said a word. Finally I said “Am I the only one that noticed that the victim’s name sounds just like Howdy Doodie?” The tension broke and everyone admitted they that thought the same thing and we were all glad to see the actual spelling on our juror’s instructions.