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pameladeanThe people in charge of the jury room are almost certainly underpaid. Not only must they answer a wild mix of clueless, aggrieved, and perfectly reasonable questions over and over and over again, and ride herd on jurors, and be cheerful, but they seem to spend a large amount of time calling courtrooms and demanding information, which is apparently only to be had by the exercise of some undefined magical power only achievable under the lash of extreme annoyance.
Anyway, they did their magic today and we all got to go home at 12:30.
There are very few of us left. The second-weekers are on call-in, so the jury pool per se is not denuded, but if they call up people from us newbies first tomorrow, I don't see how any of us will escape. Perhaps everybody will just settle. But I doubt it.
I feel happier now that I have had some sleep, and now that I know the drill -- which bus, what time, do everything possible in the evening, not in the fog of morning. I even make a cup of tea in the evening and stick it in the refrigerator so I have cold tea in the morning.
I still don't feel very smart, though. I just don't operate on corporate time.
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Anyway, they did their magic today and we all got to go home at 12:30.
There are very few of us left. The second-weekers are on call-in, so the jury pool per se is not denuded, but if they call up people from us newbies first tomorrow, I don't see how any of us will escape. Perhaps everybody will just settle. But I doubt it.
I feel happier now that I have had some sleep, and now that I know the drill -- which bus, what time, do everything possible in the evening, not in the fog of morning. I even make a cup of tea in the evening and stick it in the refrigerator so I have cold tea in the morning.
I still don't feel very smart, though. I just don't operate on corporate time.
P.
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Date: 2006-05-10 05:17 am (UTC)How long is your jury service? Here in King County, WA, its 'two days or one trial, which ever is longer'.
..... I got selected for a trial, today, so my service will be more than two days, heh.
But we only have to plan on the two days bit, unless we actually end up with a case. How long have you got where you are?
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Date: 2006-05-11 12:49 am (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-05-10 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 12:50 am (UTC)The later arrival would be lovely, even if it were just half an hour.
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Date: 2006-05-10 01:06 pm (UTC)Frankly, I think it takes a certain amount of smarts not to "opperate on corporate time".
It seems to me, back about 20 years ago when I was on jury duty, they sent us all home the second week. I was called up to be a jurior, but the trial was about child abuse, and seeing as how I was working at child psych at the time... (Actually, I was specificly asked if I'd ever worked with a kid who'd been burned --which I had-- and that was the reason I was excused.)
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Date: 2006-05-11 12:51 am (UTC)I can sure see why they excused you.
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Date: 2006-05-10 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 12:51 am (UTC)P.,
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Date: 2006-05-11 12:52 am (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-05-11 01:15 am (UTC)What makes you so sure it wasn't?
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Date: 2006-05-11 02:17 am (UTC)Well, probably it was (cutting through the negatives) a BAD BUS, because a GOOD BUS would have taken me to the REAL GOVERNMENT CENTER where I would have been DISMISSED AT ONCE to do my writing and gardening.
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Date: 2006-05-11 02:21 am (UTC)B
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Date: 2006-05-11 12:52 am (UTC)P.
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