No court for you!

Amazing what a little curiosity will do. In my case, it saved me time and perhaps allowed me an extra hour’s sleep in the morning.

I was picked yesterday for a jury panel that was supposed to convene tomorrow morning. I called the court a bit ago to inquire how long the case might last should I be picked. The nice lady told me, after giving her my name, that I don’t even have to show up in the morning. Hmm, I guess there goes my $40. Oh well, I will get $6 for yesterday, that will buy me, what,  a bottle of water?

As I remarked last week, I had hoped to get picked for a jury. I was right at the end of all the more than 100 who got sent to different courts yesterday morning. My case was supposed to in be drug court. That  would have been interesting but I would never have been picked, that is, if the attorneys had asked me any questions more piercing than my name. There are a number of reasons why I don’t believe I would have been picked. But then I can’t say with certainty I would have been dismissed. I have seem some jury picks that seemed very odd to me. I mean, I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t play one on TV. A probation officer in a child molestation case! Doesn’t that seem like an odd person to pick for a criminal jury? I saw that once.  All in all,  I’ve seen some strange people called upon to be a jury of one’s peers. It can make you wish you had different peers.

Some of the folks I talked with while waiting on the wheels of justice to slowly turn told me that once you are called around these parts for jury duty, you are usually called again sometime in the near future. So I guess I have that to look forward to, or maybe not. Lady Justice is not only blind, but she is also somewhat capricious and a bit persnickety. However, the Grand Lady is known to be fond of an unfiltered Camel and a shot of tequila, after which she is much calmer and her scale-twirling becomes much less a frightening exhibition.