Ok, I just had a day that I hope is never ever repeated. I got the lucky jury summons in the mail, went and once again was lucky in that I got selected for the jury.
This was a criminal case, and not only that it was three separate cases all in the same trial.
I wont go into it, but after a full day of trial, we went to deliberate at about 6:00pm. I will tell you this, being on a jury of strong minded people when you yourself is strong minded is not an easy task.
My blood was boiling in that back room for people that had other agendas. I was trying to be impartial, and others were using their own backgrounds to convict the person. I think that that is so wrong. I know that it is life, but when you have someone’s entire future in your hands, I think you should be able to put aside your own prejudices for a minute and come up with an unbiased verdict. But as goes life, a persons life was altered because of the decision that was made by 6 “impartial” people. It is their life, and it was their choices. Now I just have to have faith that the person can make choices now to pull themselves out of what they created, and we judged. I do not want to have this responsibility again. EVER.
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I have never had to do that. It certainly doesn't sound like I'm missing anything either. What a great responsibility is on the jury's shoulders.
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