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Jury Duty on a Murder trial - an experience for me -

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My wife served on a murder trial a few years ago. Trial lasted about 2 days and they reached a guilty verdict pretty quickly. Some black woman killed another woman for eating her sandwich.
 
Never had to serve on a jury, been lucky enough to either call night before and say I'm not needed or go there and sit all day without being called in
 
MotionMan said:
I have never been on a jury, but I have picked a few 😉

I find people's manifest lack of knowledge of even the basics of how our legal system works to be really disturbing. Even a cursory viewing of TV legal shows should give you SOME idea of how things work (even if much of it is based on artistic license. As I look back on it, LA Law had it pretty close, except, of course, for the timelines).

Didn't any of you take a Civics Class?

I blame the schools.

MotionMan, Esq.
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Civics class? How is that in any way usefuL?
 
Both of my jobs so far have had jury duty pay, and I don't believe either had a limit on the number of days. Although, if you were rather busy around that time and already postponed your jury duty once, you'd probably have to work around it.

I got called in for a drunk driving case, but it ended with the guy pleading guilty after lunch break.
 
I was jury duty on a drunk driving/medication case. The guy ran into like two houses. Policeman that showed up said he was obviously drunk, but the defense said he was taking these pills that made him blackout.

We found him guilty and he and his wife bawled the entire time the punishment was being read (2 years). It was horrible.
 
Ive sat on several paid juries ($200 per day plus lunch and dinner):

1 patent case
1 business dispute
1 sexual assault

None for the county.
 
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I served on a jury for a drug matter. The guy ended up getting 40 years.

Worse part was, the trial spanned my birthday. My wife had already reserved a limo to take me to work for my birthday, so I ended up being dropped off and picked up in front of the courthouse in a limo. Lawyers were gawking at the whole scene when I got picked up.
 
CPA said:
I served on a jury for a drug matter. The guy ended up getting 40 years.

Worse part was, the trial spanned my birthday. My wife had already reserved a limo to take me to work for my birthday, so I ended up being dropped off and picked up in front of the courthouse in a limo. Lawyers were gawking at the whole scene when I got picked up.
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LOL that's pretty funny.
 
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