Jon on Nostr: Jury duty as a 3L, or, is ignorance really bliss: 8AM - Arrive knowing we won’t be ...
Jury duty as a 3L, or, is ignorance really bliss:
8AM -
Arrive knowing we won’t be called until 9ish at the earliest. Settle in.
8:30AM -
Staff plays video in English/Spanish/French asking jurors who don’t comprehend English to go forward for additional instructions. These potential jurors are taken to a different waiting are.
9AM -
Judge: Swears the jury room in, tells us judges have calendar calls, then will call juries.
Me: Welp, nothing until lunchtime, then I either end up on a multi day trial or go home.
Staff starts a Diane Keaton romcom.
9:30AM
I ask if I can go downstairs to the cafe to buy some coffee. They have a process in place. The lady that runs the court cafe makes damn good coffee.
10:50AM
Staff starts our second feature: The Greatest Showman.
11:10AM -
First large group gets called for voir dire right as the movie gets good. My name isn’t called.
11:20AM - Barnum (Hugh Jackman) is finally accepted - kind of - by high society, but he’s just been a jerk to his cast, which sets up the dramatic arcs for the third act.
11:30AM -
The rest of the potential jurors get released because all of the other trials settled. Don’t ruin the end of the movie for me.
#juryduty #lawSchool #law #lawfedi
8AM -
Arrive knowing we won’t be called until 9ish at the earliest. Settle in.
8:30AM -
Staff plays video in English/Spanish/French asking jurors who don’t comprehend English to go forward for additional instructions. These potential jurors are taken to a different waiting are.
9AM -
Judge: Swears the jury room in, tells us judges have calendar calls, then will call juries.
Me: Welp, nothing until lunchtime, then I either end up on a multi day trial or go home.
Staff starts a Diane Keaton romcom.
9:30AM
I ask if I can go downstairs to the cafe to buy some coffee. They have a process in place. The lady that runs the court cafe makes damn good coffee.
10:50AM
Staff starts our second feature: The Greatest Showman.
11:10AM -
First large group gets called for voir dire right as the movie gets good. My name isn’t called.
11:20AM - Barnum (Hugh Jackman) is finally accepted - kind of - by high society, but he’s just been a jerk to his cast, which sets up the dramatic arcs for the third act.
11:30AM -
The rest of the potential jurors get released because all of the other trials settled. Don’t ruin the end of the movie for me.
#juryduty #lawSchool #law #lawfedi