Got summoned for jury duty. Had to make the call last night to see if my number, Juror #3016 would be needed in some no doubt hyper critical legal affair going on at the Jefferson County Court. The saps with #'s 2350 - 2915 had to report. Can't say I'm sad, but either way, I wasn't going to get sucked into the juror thang.
Now I'm a firm believer in a jury trial. I think it's a right and a privledge to serve on a jury. All of that is good. My employer (fortunately) would've been cool if I had to be on the jury. The real honest answer is: I don't want to. It's just that simple.
So what if they had called my number? The first thing that I would have told them is that I believe that jury nullification is a valid right of every juror. That seems to get you rapidly dismissed from any court around.
And I'm okay with that. I think it's George Carlin that says:
Now I'm a firm believer in a jury trial. I think it's a right and a privledge to serve on a jury. All of that is good. My employer (fortunately) would've been cool if I had to be on the jury. The real honest answer is: I don't want to. It's just that simple.
So what if they had called my number? The first thing that I would have told them is that I believe that jury nullification is a valid right of every juror. That seems to get you rapidly dismissed from any court around.
And I'm okay with that. I think it's George Carlin that says:
Do you really want a trial by a jury of people who weren't clever enough to get out of jury duty?