I really didn’t want to be there. I was yuppie, back then. They put over 100 of us in this huge room, and I thought I was going to scream. It was getting too warm, and there was no moving air. Then when I was led into the courtroom, the defense attorneys were sitting with their clients at a long table, whose relatives or parents got them nice clothes. Shirts and ties. I was so naive, I thought they were law students. Boy, did I feel dumb.
In my experiences with jury duty, the thing that struck me was how seriously most people took the experience.
I’ve talked to lawyers who said that some people are real slackers about it; but I was generally impressed by my fellow citizens.