November 18, 2003
Runaway!! Jury
As previously mentioned, I headed to the courthouse this morning to report for jury duty. Thank god for cell phones...I'm blogging from the jury box now. Kidding...
I was one of around 50 people called for two separate trials. The trial I was called in on was a medical malpractice case. It seemed rather interesting and I'd love to have stayed but it was scheduled to run somewhere around 4 days. My wife's having eye surgery on Friday so I had to stand up and tell the judge that I couldn't do it.
Overall the experience was fine. It was really a lot of sitting around, something I come by pretty naturally.
Posted by Chris at November 18, 2003 1:31 PMI had a 10 day trial one time. And in the end, on decision day, they called it a mistrial because the prosecuting attorney slipped up and mentioned the witness' prior jail time. So we basically wasted 10 days... [sigh]
Posted by: katherine at November 18, 2003 2:06 PMwell, at least you escaped unscathed...i don't think i've ever been called for jury duty...weird...
Posted by: azure at November 18, 2003 3:05 PMahhhhhh who will do my homework for me???
Posted by: kelly at November 18, 2003 9:43 PM
