Friday, July 06, 2007

Jury duty: How I went from from proud and patriotic to cynical and pissed off in 8 days

Seriously, I'm still on jury duty. For the world's most boring. case. ever. While I still can't talk about the specifics of the case I can tell you that I hate everyone involved in it. I hate the lawyers for asking so many questions and one in particular for being redundant and totally incompetent. I hate the judge for allowing this stupid case to get to court. I hate the defendant and the alleged victim for making a minor skirmish into an 8+ day trial. I hate the courthouse for only letting the trial run for a few hours a day with far too many breaks, dragging it out indefinitely. I don't hate any of my fellow jurors yet but that could change if we have a long deliberation. Since I hate everyone equally I feel totally impartial and able to make a fair decision on the case, but I will do everything I possibly can in my power to avoid serving jury duty ever again after this experience. I feel like I'm the one serving time for a very minor crime someone may or may not have committed - where's the justice in that?

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