Jury Duty

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Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter

kids ... can move fast when you least want them to.

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The case, as best I can remember, involved a child (don't remember the age) that escaped the house while the father was home and was wandering around in the road in front.

...which reminds me of what happend to a co-worker many years ago that had a kid rug-rat age. He was leaving for work and as he was going into the garage his wife asked him a question. He was distracted for just a moment in the garage doorway as he answered the question. He backed his car out only to see his child (unharmed) crawling around in the garage.*

He said the mixture of horror, relief, joy and anger almost made him puke.

O2

* The kid was supposedly safe and sound behind a baby gate or something in another room, but had achieved the next level of problem solving that morning.

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Originally Posted by AirbornePathogen

Great writeup, Grey. Very informative.

I've been called up once in El Paso and once in Arapahoe, haven't seen the inside of a courtroom. Not as a juror, anyway, but as a witness a few times. I've lived in Jeffco for 5 years now and haven't been called up yet. Of course, now that I type this...

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The day after I read this thread I got the letter for jury duty in jeffco. We moved to Colorado 5 years ago and I've had to call in 4 times. Twice for Arapahoe county, twice for jeffco. I had to report for duty twice. First time, the trial was postponed. The second time, the person next to me was the last jury member selected. My wife has never had to call in.

O2, thanks. That recap essentially makes my point. A lot of single women and guys in general just don't understand how hard watching kids can be. I can understand why the defense counsel wouldn't want them on the jury or would be okay with the prosecutor eliminating single women and guys from the jury.

I would love to serve on a jury, but the only time I was summoned was when I was 19 and away at college.

A couple months ago I was summoned for a felony attempted murder with a vehicle case. I was definitely in the first batch of jurors that would have been used unless eliminated. The defense lawyer was saying that self defense would be raised, as the people the defendant was trying to run over was really trying to escape from them. It sounded really interesting.
The two lawyers were doing the jury questioning. The last question was from the defense lawyer, "What bumper stickers do you have on your car?"
Everyone answered with whatever they had, when they got to me, I mentioned that since I'm a firearms safety instructor, I have info about my business on there. Along with the "thou shalt not be talked about" co-ar sticker.
Yeah, I was the only one dismissed from the first batch of jurors.