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One time I was called for jury duty, the voir dire completely amused me. The accused was found drunk in a street using the curb as a...

There's also the matter of perjury if you bend the truth to get out of jury duty. Prosecution is unlikely, of course, although that...

I was surprised they overlooked Texas. Most everyone within the Texas national border is pretty happy with it.

Barrister (non-practising these days) of quite a few years' call here. Seconded. In the UK, jury trial has been removed from civil...

For over a decade, I was a paralegal for a civil litigation firm. It's probably just as well that you dodged jury duty since dishonesty...

This wasn’t jury duty. It was a subpoena. I would have been a witness, not a juror. I always respond to jury duty notices. I figure if...

But was the murder victim (whom the defense, I presume, was going to argue was a low, mean character Who Was Asking for It), the one who...

Yes, the murder victim was the burglar from 2013. I have no idea why the now-admitted murderer killed him. Be careful out there. Rotten...

The story can now be told. I was served papers to appear in court as a witness in a murder trial. Which, I hope you might imagine, was...

I don't know if this makes me happy or not. Yesterday, I noticed a thing I'm working on had dropped from 24,000 words to 8,000. It was...