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One should note that people come up with tons of crazy excuses for why they can't serve on a jury when they don't want to be there. Source: I was in jury selec
by Redoubts 9y ago
One should note that people come up with tons of crazy excuses for why they can't serve on a jury when they don't want to be there.
Source: I was in jury selection for a simple possession trial that lasted two fulls days, and watched peoples excuses become more and more elaborate as the process wore on.
- ghaff 9y agoRight. And I assume that this [EDIT: was expected to be] a long, high profile trial that most people would really prefer to not be empaneled for. A while back I was called in for jury selection for a Grand Jury which would have involved something like 4 days a week for multiple months, i.e. completely awful from my perspective. The thing that surprised me in that case was that a fair number of people basically volunteered to be chosen--though many obviously did not. (The DA let them go through voir dire first before picking from people who were less inclined to do it.)