jury duty? in college?

BCEagle91
Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:07:23 +0000

I would too. There are a lot of subtleties that get missed when videoconferencing
including body language, evasive looks in the eyes, and other cues that would be
missed.



How do you know that these would work against your favor?



It’s also much easier to be distracted and to be multi-tasking with something
else rather than paying 100% attention



So getting a bunch of people into a room at a particular place and time providing inconvenience would result in jurors that are not distracted and/or multitasking and/or sleeping?

How do you know that this would work for you or against you?



I found a police officer a few years ago to report an accident on an exit ramp (I witnessed the accident but couldn’t physically get to where it was). I drove to the next exit planning to call the police but there was a police car already there (he had just pulled someone over at a gas station so maybe he got lucky) and I told the officer about the accident. He took care of it. Some weeks later I received a call from our local DA and he said that I was going to be called as a witness at the guy’s trial (apparently drunk-driving). He told me the days involved and I said that I would be out of the country and that I could provide him with days that I would be available. He told me not to bother - he would work out a plea-deal. My guess is that most cases work like this or else our court system would be clogged.