Your Civic Responsibility

Did SoulSlam mention he was assigned jury duty? No?

OK, so the Big S was called for jury duty in early October for a Two Day/One Trial cattle call audition. Arrived at the courthouse as expected. Around 10:30AM they called approximately 60 potential jurors to a courtroom for possible seating on a civil trial. Looking for eight jurors apparently. Anyways, they had seven selected and they just couldn't seat the 8th from what I could tell. We were in there for about 2.5 hours (wrapped around a lunch break) and there was about 10-12 sad folks still waiting to be interviewed when I heard my name called. Uh-Oh.

So long story short I got picked. Juror #1.

Trial started a week later. Here's the breakdown of days:

October 16-19 aka week one: 3.5 days in court

October 22-25 aka week two: 3.25 days in court

October 30 and November 1: The completion of trial

Now, you may be saying to your inquisitive self "wow, that must have been a large corporate trial regarding millions of dollars in question". You'd be wrong. It was between two guys that own machine shops basically.

To say this got very ponderous would be an understatement. While I understand my civic responsibility to complete jury duty when called, the length of time on this trial was overwhelming for all. Anyways, on the last day, SoulSlam was named foreperson and I took it to completion in earnest. Held for plaintiff. He'll most likely never collect from defendant. That's the judicial system!