Jury Duty....sigh...my brain is dead!
 

I just got done with being on jury duty for a month (off and on due to budget cuts, court holidays and whatever other reason they could find to not have a court session) as an alternate no less and my brain is just dead now! I understand all the whys we should do it and am blessed to have a company that allows me time off - but man I think someone sucked all the mojo and any creativity out of me and I am dying here!

I am soooooooo exaggerating here but not by much of a sample of one of my days on jury duty:

"Sir would you say this is a number 2 pencil that I am holding?"
"Yes."
"Are you certain this is a number 2 pencil?"
"Yes."
"If I turned it to the left, would you still say this is a number 2 pencil?"
"Yes."
"How about if you saw it in a catalog, would you still say it is a number 2 pencil?"
"Yes."
"What is your expertise or background that you have that leads you to know for certain this is a number 2 pencil?"

Witness answers for the next hour on why he/she is an expert and still the attorney asks.....

"If Sally took the train going North at 9:00 am and Bob took the bus going West at 10:00 am and Mary decided she would stay home because she had a headache, would you still say this is a number 2 pencil?"

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Anyone else experience this too?

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH indeed!
I didn't had the "pleasure" to experience this... :blink:
:p

LOL Darla! :)

My husband had jury duty for a drunk driving case and he was full of those stories too. He ended up with more knowledge on drunk driving than he ever wanted to have.

a month???!?! Holy moly! I've gotten out of it because of being home with the kids.

But seriously, my hubby had a drunk driving case also... and it lasted like 3 days even though it was totally cut and dry. It was like, "the nurses made mistakes on reading the alcohol level in his blood" right......

I'm a lawyer so I've seen more cases like that than I care to think about! I've even seen cases where jurors fell asleep and the judge would refuse to wake them up. I was also on a case that lasted for a YEAR!

OH my! Don't scare me....I have jury duty on Wednesday. My first time ever. I was kind of happy about it. Only because it gets me out of the house and those of you who know me, know I have a very hard time getting out.

I seriously need a life if I am looking forward to jury duty. :p

Gosh Darla that must have been excruciating...I've never done jury duty(thank you Military and husband working away from home) so I guess I'll have something to look forward too when I do have to do it...not!

Hopefully you can get back into the swing of things...as long as no one mentions Number 2 pencils!!!!

Fee :)

You know, I have never been called.

Eeeeeew! That sounds incredibly boring! I've been called for jury duty twice, but got out of it both times because of the types of cases and the fact that I simply couldn't be impartial due to the nature of the crimes.

I was almost selected for a murder trial jury duty in October. Thankfully got out of that one!

Ahah... that's sounds boring!! And weird... :D Here in Italy cases lasts at least 6-8 months... sometimes years, before you know how it's going to end up... And I was in law school, but I'm not doing the lawyer because of that... ;)