I received a certified letter two weeks ago informing me that my number had been pulled for jury duty in village court on Monday the 23rd. Nothing big, I figured, it’s local stuff, hardly sees anything more than misdimeanor offenses. Work is cool about these things, so I got the day off and headed to perform my civic duty.
I show up about 20 minutes early (9:10 AM or so) and sign in. It’s worth noting that the village court in this case is in a small strip mall off one of the main drags here in town. It’s ridiculous. We wait around, and the clerk finally brings around paperwork for us to fill out in order to be compensated for our service. We fill it out, we hand it in, we wait.
About 2 hours later, we get called into the selection room and against all odds, I get selected. I guess I look normal or something. So back into the waiting room, and we wait a bit more. It must be around 12:40 PM by this point. Around 1 PM we’re ushered into the courtroom, and the opening statements are made, shortly after which the defendant requests a recess. We file back into the waiting room. And we wait.
And finally around 2:30 PM or so, we get a note from the judge saying that a plea bargain had been entered, and we were excused from duty. So it was a lovely waste of a day, but it did let me get some laundry done. Hooray for jury duty!
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