Headed off to Jury Duty yesterday morning just in the nick of time, a satchel full of entertainment with me — a couple of novels, some writing materials, some CoH guides to read, my comic book catalog — and ready to Do My Part.<\/p>\n
The local courthouse is over near Centennial airport. I just made it in time, only to be held up by the security checkpoint. Nothing unusual for someone who travels by air.<\/p>\n
Checked in, and sat down with a questionnaire. The questions had to do with profession, hobbies, interests, education, jury experience, crime experience, police experience, various bits that the lawyers would usually ask the jury pool but now gets handled this way. One copy goes to the prosecution\/plaintiffs, the other goes to the defense. On the bright side, they aren’t allowed to ask any of those questions during jury examination.<\/p>\n
Anything additional to say about jury duty, asked the form. “I am interested in doing my civic duty.” Yes, I really am that square.<\/p>\n
The waiting room had about 140 people in it — a good cross-section by age and gender and race — and racks of magazines and paperbacks (courtesy of the Arapahoe County Library) along with coffee and tea and various TVs with MSNBC news on it (endless droning on the Schaivo case).<\/p>\n
At about 9, the local dury panel deputy person came out and briefed us on the procedure, followed in a bit by one of the local judges welcoming us. Ordinarily, the court there has nine jury trials over the course of a week, a mix of civil and criminal. Things were slow this week, with the one criminal trial on the docket ending late Friday with a plea bargain, leaving a single civil trial.<\/p>\n
So, of the 140, a selection of forty was to be made, as selected randomly by computer, the rest dismissed for the day. The selectees then got to see a video, sit through various delays and winnowing and more delays and discussion and delays and …<\/p>\n
Well, alas, it was the only day of my “civic duty.” Further deponent sayeth not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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