TOPIC: Jury Duty

One of my friends got a jury duty summons a week or two ago and we had been discussing it recently when I came to the conclusion that I would love to be on a jury. In the past, I've always chucked out the notices, but now I almost wish I could get a another chance to serve. I want to go in and with great obfuscation, actually get to hear a case. This would obviously mean that I would have to fail to disclose years of education and cling to claims of ignorance about most things. Then I can have my dream of staring in my very own version of 12 Angry Men, in reverse. To be the lone holdout from setting the defendant free, I would weave cunning and incisive arguments which point to guilt. Things like 'Well, why would they charge him if he weren't guilty?' or 'He looks exactly like that serial killer, (insert closest serial killer's name here). He's probaly killed a bunch of people and gotten away with it.' Slowly, I would persuade the other recalcitrant jurors and they would eventually come around, acknowledging my superior arguments and we would return with a unanimous verdict of guilty. I could then punch my fist into the air in victory and wait for the next jury duty notice to arrive.<br /><br />I'm probaly the kind of person that defense attorneys and criminal defendents have nightmares about.

I bet you couldn't get past the first screening question Henwy!

Extensive fabrication of answers would probaly be involved.

How have you gotten away with throwing away the notices?  I thought it was standard practice that you had to at least report even if you weren't chosen.  In Warren County the sheriff will come and bring you into court if you fail to report.<br /><br />Kim

I was in chicago and they were mailing them back to my parent's place in NJ. Whenever I ran across one I just chucked it or had someone else do it.

Eschew obfuscation!<br /><br />Brian<br />

Eschew obfuscation!

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