Jury Duty

[holzman_tweed]

I spent Monday and Tuesday serving Jury duty.

Fortunately, it's generally a safe assumption that I'm immune to having to actually serve for a trial, and sure enough one of the attorneys challenged me and I was not selected, meaning I got to go home. People with multiple security certifications who have known people who have witnessed, suffered, committed, and been convicted of crimes just raise hackles for prosecutors and defense attorneys alike.

The experience was still quite fascinating. Objectively speaking. After the fact. Jury service itself is actually quite dull, consisting mostly of sitting on one's ass while waiting to be told to go to a different hallway or room, where one will sit on one's ass in a completely different chair that is every bit as uncomfortable as the last chair you sat on. I was truly impressed at the number of different designs of uncomfortable seating arrangements that had been assumbled in one building compound. Perhaps as an inducement, the only comfortable seating I ever sat in was the one in the jury box itself.

So, all told, there isn't much to tell about jury duty -- how much can one say about sitting on one's ass?

Comments

[the-leewit.livejournal.com]

Ha... "Are you, or have you ever been, possessed of an opinion or an education? Thank you, Mr. H., that will be all.

[the-leewit.livejournal.com]

Um, closequote.