Well I tried

[SeaCat]

This morning I got dressed in my good clothes and even had my Pony Tail in a braid as I drove to the local Courthouse. I didn't have a choice, I had to be there.

No I wasn't there to answer charges or even act as witness, I was there for my yearly Jury Duty.

Well I listened to the instructions and then grabbed a seat with a cup of bad coffee and my book expecting some reading time. Much to my surprised I was called in for the first case. I filed into the courtroom with a bunch of others and grabbed a seat. One of the lawyers in the room took one look at me and asked if I rode a Motorcycle. I readily agreed that I did while wondering why this would matter. (We hadn't been told what the case would be.) Then the lawyer asked if I had any experience in either the Medical or Rescue Field. Again I had to answer in the affirmative. I was told I could leave. Damn.

I found out as I was leaving that the case involved a drunk driver running a Motorcycle off the road. (I think I remember that one.)

In the past ten years of being called up for Jury Duty here in Florida I have always been tossed off the jury because of my experiences in Medicine and/or rescue.

Cat

 

[Guest]

I never get to serve.

They don't want people with grad school, either.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I get dismissed because I know too much.

About what? Oh, firearms, DNA testing, stuff like that. It appears that I am likely to influence the other members of the jury more than the lawyers fighting the case.

Oh, and in any cases dealing with sexual abuse of children, I am very politely shown the door.

 

[oggbashan]

I've been called three times.

Once I was not selected during the whole time because all the defendants pleaded guilty before the jury was called. Perhaps their lawyers had seen the potential jurors

The other two times, when a jury was selected, I became foreman. All the defendants were found guilty but there wasn't much for the jury to decide. The charges were minor - burglary and taking cars without the owner's consent. Every defendant was a repeat offender (which we didn't know at the time) and had been caught in the cars with the stolen property on them.

The lawyer for one defendant, after I had pronounced the verdict "Guilty" to the thirty-six charges, asked for another 200+ offences to be taken into consideration...

Og

PS. In the UK, the jury foreman/woman reads the verdicts aloud. Until then, no one except the jurors knows the verdict, only that we had reached one.