I wonder if Aaron Hernandez is getting a good night's sleep?

[IronEagle]

[KGing]
I just completed that last week. In my county they collect a week-long pool of people for juror assignment. Those who aren't picked for a trial are tossed back into the pool.

I sat with about 140 others in a big assembly room, and they occasionally drew a random 35 to walk into the courtroom, where the basics of the case were presented. Once all the juror prospects had a chance to announce any problems with the particulars, they drew another random 24 or 28 (depending on the judge) from that group, dismissing the rest back to the big assembly room.

Then both sides worked on eliminating X number of people from the group. Those who remained were actual jurors (or alternates).

Over the course of three days, I got called into the pool of 35 twice. I made the group of 28 once, and I failed to make the final cut. So basically nothing happened.

The administrator dismissed everybody who was not assigned to a trial on Wednesday afternoon. In the end I had a nice little mental vacation. Plenty of time to sit, listen to music, read, surf the web, and such. And to try and avoid the ding-dongs who wanted to gab about dumb shit all day. The nice thing is that my company paid me for the days (and I get to keep the whopping $9 a day that the county owes me). It was cool to check out some decent lunchtime restaurants near the courthouse, too.

Hopefully you'll be part of something interesting.
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This is in el corazón de la bestia. As have been my previous summons.

I don't plan to try on getting out of it, nor do I intend to want to be on a jury. If they dismissed me after a day or two of service on call I'd be totally ok with that. Given the Thursday call date, I suspect they are going to want me there on Thurs and Fri.

But if called upon to serve on a trial I'd be ok with that too.

I remember many years ago (late 90s) when called for voir dire on a trial involving a drug dealer who murdered somebody, the defendant was glaring at the eyes of each potential juror (including me) who was being questioned by the defense attorney. When you see things like that it is easy to see how our justice system fails.

[Riccardo]

Same here

I was called once by the county more than 10 years ago - showed up, got pulled into jury selection for one case, didn't get selected, sat back in the waiting room until 4, and then they told us we were done. Haven't heard boo from them since. I'd like to get into a jury at some point, maybe when I'm a retired geezer