- Oct 20, 2014
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I didn't think I could have any less faith in our courts, but here we are. Had jury duty today and had to show up at 8:00AM and literally all we did the first half of the day was take roll and alternate sitting in the court and sitting in the hallway while the judge processed maybe 30 requests for exemptions from jury duty, almost all of which were denied. Broke for lunch at 12:30, came back and the judge told us about the fifth amendment, then the prosecutor for the case spent 45 minutes telling us reasons we'd have to convict, didn't ask any of us any questions but just had a big discussion all at once with the 100 or so people in the pool, probably 85 of which never spoke a word. Then the defense coached us on all these reasons we had to find his client not guilty for 40-45 minutes, then same discussion format. Then go sit in the hall for a hour before coming back to find which 12 people got chosen. And most of them hadn't said a word the entire presentation from the two counsel. I was so bored to death another member of the pool and I made a pact to go rob a liquor store if we got chosen so we wouldn't have to show up tomorrow. The highlight of my day was complaining to the defense attorney how unreliable witness testimony was.