Unlucky # 7

And Jury Selection Begins

This has been one of the most brain draining experiences I have ever experienced in my life! OH MY GOD! I need to back up....I have always, for the last 20 years have always had a built in excuse to be dismissed from my civil duty as a potential juror.

Examples are as follows:

Nursing Mother
Self Employed (hard ship...don't work.....don't get paid)
Broken Ankle (seriously, done the day before.....still don't know what is or was worse)
Sole Supporter of my Family (ex lost job and I am the bread winner)
Business owner (Jury? or Run and Opperate a business?)

I literally wrote the above way back in October. Yesterday was December 3rd, 2007, and I was finally discharged from.........JURY DUTY! Ugh! That experience is just one of the many reasons I have not posted lately. Damn, I had so much I wanted to say, but could not due to an oath I took.

Well, it's over, finally. It really isn't a great feeling knowing that you helped send a single mother to prison........, an ex-correctional guard. But, I have to keep in my mind that she did it to herself. She was beyond a reasonable doubt guilty of all fourteen charges.

In the next few days, I will write about my experience and being so closely tied to thirteen other people. I say thirteen other people because I am including the alternates. They are the ones that I really feel sorry for. They had to listen to over one month of testimony, etc....and then excused but told to be within fifteen minutes of the courthouse. How unfair is that? We could've really used one towards the end when one particular nut job on our pannel was so hell bent on hanging most, if not all verdicts. I will get to her later......

I honestly thought that I would be brought up on an assult charge yesterday, but I remained calm. My fellow jurors were betting that at the very least, I would be held in contemp. Long story short: I blew up at her right before lunch and walked out........I think that is what saved my ass from a potential assult charge.

More to follow!

Ciao,
angie