Jury Duty Experiences

garland
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:32:07 +0000

I’ve got jury duty in two weeks. The last two times i was there (which seems to occur regularly), I was in voir dire for murder trials. I do not want to be on a murder trial . The first time, they never picked my name from the panel before completing the jury, so I was sent home. The second time, I delineated the crimes against my family in answer to the standard questions, and I was sent home. (In a bizarre coincidence, my s was assaulted in a town near ours the night before I was at JD.)

This upcoming time, I will list the same crimes. I doubt I’ll be put on a jury, though you never know. I don’t object to being on one per se, but it’s a hard time of year, what with the students I counsel being in the middle of finals by then, and the unreliability of my county’s judicial system. I’d just as soon not serve, especially for murder, given our realities.