“I’ve never been called for jury duty but if I were I’d be happy to go and do it.”
This probably isn’t gonna come out right but considering you’ve never served, with all due respect your comment is uninformed.
I’ve been called 4 times in 10 years. Last time was just this March. 1st time I ended up on a jury, 2nd and 3rd I didn’t get picked. last time I was in a group of 35 people that a jury was to be selected from but the trial was “continued” so we all got released with our civic duty completed in the eyes of the court.
My personal opinion......I’ll do it if called but it’s a PITA if you ask me.
You find yourself on a murder trial jury with the death penalty hanging in the balance and I suspect you may change your view of jury duty. Thats a heavy weight when your actually in the middle of it....just my 2 cent....and then some. 🙂
I served on a kidnapping/murder trial a couple of years ago.
It reinforced my opinion that we need smart people on the juries, if for no other reason than to exercise the Founding Father's reason for including them in the criminal justice system:
To judge, not only the facts of the case, but also the law and the application of it.
“This probably isn’t gonna come out right but considering you’ve never served, with all due respect your comment is uninformed.”
No, I just feel bad for the people whose fates end up in the hands of twelve people who couldn’t get out of jury duty.
Plus, I’m hoping for the case where some idiot gun law is in question.