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kprocheI get to spend today going back and forth to the Hall of Justice.
Summoned for Jury Duty.
Drive to the light rail. Arrive 8:15am, check in, sit and do a jigsaw for 2 hours. The voice on the PA then announces that there has been a delay and we're released until 1:30.
So Light rail back to the car. Drive down to work for a bit. Show the gang that pushing the "Start" button will enable the machine they say isn't working. Fix a cranky printer.
Now it's lunchtime (better food than at Civic Center; one incentive to actually come down to work). Post this, eat, then back to the car, back to the light rail and then back to the HOJ.
Where I will work on the jigsaw some more.
Until they dismiss us, or empanel us and send us to a courtroom. (Unless they don't sort it out, in which case it's back in the morning).
Where I will sit until one or the other attorney decides they don't want a scientist on the jury (which almost always happens).
Then I get to go back to work or home, depending on the time.
Ain't justice grand?
K
Sorry if this sounds cynical. The first time I was called I was really excited to be doing my civic duty. Then reality set in. They very rarely seatl engineers/scientists on juries. So I go all through the rigamarole just to be sent home. And as soon as my 12 months are up, I get called again (actually, it was 18 mos this time). To go through the whole process one more time.h
Summoned for Jury Duty.
Drive to the light rail. Arrive 8:15am, check in, sit and do a jigsaw for 2 hours. The voice on the PA then announces that there has been a delay and we're released until 1:30.
So Light rail back to the car. Drive down to work for a bit. Show the gang that pushing the "Start" button will enable the machine they say isn't working. Fix a cranky printer.
Now it's lunchtime (better food than at Civic Center; one incentive to actually come down to work). Post this, eat, then back to the car, back to the light rail and then back to the HOJ.
Where I will work on the jigsaw some more.
Until they dismiss us, or empanel us and send us to a courtroom. (Unless they don't sort it out, in which case it's back in the morning).
Where I will sit until one or the other attorney decides they don't want a scientist on the jury (which almost always happens).
Then I get to go back to work or home, depending on the time.
Ain't justice grand?
K
Sorry if this sounds cynical. The first time I was called I was really excited to be doing my civic duty. Then reality set in. They very rarely seatl engineers/scientists on juries. So I go all through the rigamarole just to be sent home. And as soon as my 12 months are up, I get called again (actually, it was 18 mos this time). To go through the whole process one more time.h
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Date: 2004-10-28 04:54 am (UTC)When I was still in college, a circulating anecdote told of a student who'd been called:
"Would you beleive the testimony of an expert witness?"
"Not if it disobeyed the laws of physics."
*boot*
He wasn't trying to get booted, just answering the question honestly.