Jury Duty / Meeting a Shadow
May. 14th, 2007 05:36 pmThis morning I was #3 of the first jury pool called. The voir dire seemed to be very long, and -- especially compared to my experience last year -- seemed focused more on getting prospective jurors to reflect on the role and expectation of a juror than on revealing prejudices and biases that were related to the case. I was also surprised at how many of the questions were addressed to the 24 people who were not in the jury box -- those there to fill in the holes if/when some of the first twelve were excused.
I only had one question addressed to me directly, and volunteered info once about past jury experience. In the end, I was excused on a preremptory challenge by the defense. Afterward, one fellow juror said, "You were obviously too smart." That's when I remembered
royalbananafish's caution to me last year that that's what would probably happen. I go back tomorrow morning for another round of jury pool draws and perhaps another voir dire.
( During the voir dire, I was reminded why I have some of the issues I do about stepping up. )
I only had one question addressed to me directly, and volunteered info once about past jury experience. In the end, I was excused on a preremptory challenge by the defense. Afterward, one fellow juror said, "You were obviously too smart." That's when I remembered
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( During the voir dire, I was reminded why I have some of the issues I do about stepping up. )