Jury Duty

[theGinsue]

Dude. CPAP. It has changed my life.

On CPAP & supplemental oxygen. Keeps me stable, but not truly rested. Severe obstructive & centralized apnea both. At least I'm not fighting to stay awake on my drive home from work anymore, mostly.



I'm very impressed with your write up TheGrey, and with the follow up comments as well. Too often we see all of the negative things about Jury Duty and why everyone wants to get out of it.

[Gman]

On CPAP & supplemental oxygen. Keeps me stable, but not truly rested. Severe obstructive & centralized apnea both. At least I'm not fighting to stay awake on my drive home from work anymore, mostly.

Good to hear that you've addressed it. Sorry to hear that you're not getting real rest with it.

[Martinjmpr]

Great writeup.

I was called for jury duty in 1986 and served as jury foreman on a criminal trial (at the age of 24!) because nobody else wanted to.

You have to be careful, though - My experience as a juror was what prompted me to study law, and you know what that leads to - another f***ing lawyer!

[CS1983]

What are TheGrey, et al.'s thoughts on Jury trial vs waiving Jury and going w/ a Judge?

[Rumline]

But seriously, I love jury duty. It's a nice break from the office, and it's an important civic duty. I don't want anybody to go to jail on flimsy charges (and I helped convince the other jurors to let somebody off once who really didn't do anything, but his public defender was incompetent and didn't present her case effectively).

I was fortunate once to be called and selected to serve on a panel for US District Court. We didn't know it at the time, but our verdict helped to establish case law as it was the first of its kind of case to go to trial.

Thanks for the detailed write-up TheGrey. I haven't served on a jury in Colorado yet so it's nice to see an overview of the process here.

[O2HeN2]

I made it into voir dire on a child negligence case. In just a few minutes I was the last Y chromosome to be eliminated just before the last childless woman. Defendant was male, entire jury was mothers. I was a bit confused about the “Jury of your peers” part...

O2

[Madeinhb]

I made it into voir dire on a child negligence case. In just a few minutes I was the last Y chromosome to be eliminated just before the last childless woman. Defendant was male, entire jury was mothers. I was a bit confused about the “Jury of your peers” part...

O2

They of course picked a jury that would be against the father.

[CS1983]

They of course picked a jury that would be against the father.

Hence:

What are TheGrey, et al.'s thoughts on Jury trial vs waiving Jury and going w/ a Judge?

[Martinjmpr]

I made it into voir dire on a child negligence case. In just a few minutes I was the last Y chromosome to be eliminated just before the last childless woman. Defendant was male, entire jury was mothers. I was a bit confused about the “Jury of your peers” part...

O2

They of course picked a jury that would be against the father.

Wait, who is "they?" The defendant didn't have a lawyer? If so why didn't he challenge men being excluded from the jury?

Or do you think the defense attorney colluded with the prosecution to exclude men from the jury?

[Madeinhb]

Wait, who is "they?" The defendant didn't have a lawyer? If so why didn't he challenge men being excluded from the jury?

Or do you think the defense attorney colluded with the prosecution to exclude men from the jury?

Mine was a general topic. If it was a public defender - they really don't care. They just want to get through their cases as quick as possible.