I can't wait for it to be over, so I can talk about the case. It's quite interesting. We've been there all week, but have yet to start deliberating.
I found this article on Sign On San Diego about Jury Duty in San Diego . . . so funny and so TRUE!!! Here's a portion:
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Deductive reasoning made me realize that although the summons says you have to be there by 7:45 a.m., it's okay if you show up by 8:45. No one seems to care. In fact, if you show up 5 days earlier or 5 days later than your summons date, the jury office apparently doesn't care about that either.
I now know that jurors are special people, although they can get sore sitting around all day doing very little. I figured out the soreness can be abated if one walks around imagining what each person would be doing if they weren't doing this.
It is against the laws of nature to fall asleep in the small seats, yet miraculously, some people figure out a way.
I also learned that you mustn't put coffee on the metal detection ramp in the lobby.
Because I am a hiker, I was happy to hear from a brief film about jury service that somehow the great peaks of Yosemite have something in common with the process of coming to a verdict.
In a particularly interesting discovery, I learned that the large jury room "cattle call" seats perhaps 500 people, who spend their time knitting, embroidering, talking on the phone, working on their laptops, reading books and newspapers or getting dates. Because there are many television sets, one can watch Wolf Blitzer talk about something while simultaneously watching Paris Hilton get out of jail and hug somebody.
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(Read complete article Jury duty - the inside story by clicking on this link).
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