Wow, somebody actually gets stuck on jury duty!? Next time you are called for jury selection let me know and I'll give you a few pointers on how to get out of it.
Actually thought one of these years I might let them pick me but it seems like such an awful lot of aggrevation to go through a trial.
I'm sure I'd be admonished for getting up out of the jury box and walking around during the proceedings. I'm sure I could not sit still through a trial.
I’ve done jury duty 3 times in 40 years and have yet to “deliberate.” Two trials ere aborted by changed pleas before they actually got going. In one the evidence and the witness testimony was so thin that the jurors all had a hard time not laughing and it got dismissed before the defense presented its case.
I don’t mind serving was the first time I hadn’t been in the service or otherwise excused. I was suprised they accepted me because I was legal officer on one of my ships as a collateral duty (writing charges, capts mast, admin seps, etc). The issue came up but the judge had limited them on the number they could each throw off - I could tell the defense was struggling as to which of three or four he wanted to toss and I came along and he knew he just wasn’t going to have enough slots to go around - I think he felt I was the better choice (I’m guessing he didn’t think emotional pleas on either side would sway me and I’d stick to the facts - which I did and called out in the jury room a couple of things from both sides, but I wasn’t the only one which helped make things go smoother). Who knows.