[lbo-talk] jury duty

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Tue May 16 16:11:34 PDT 2006


People don't even necessarily get tossed for being lawyers -- I spoke to an attorney yesterday who had been picked and served on a jury in, I think, LA, shortly before trying a case of her own. (She was not impressed by the caliber of the deliberations.)

Tocqueville has an ambiguous but positive discussion of the jury system as educational.

I've been called as an alternate for Thurs., will go if health permits. I agree with Doug that the jury system is great.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
> >You didn't get tossed for being a "known leftist
> radical"?
> >I assume civil rather than criminal? Anything
> interesting?
> >I've never served myself. I always get eliminated.
> I'd like to do it
> >at least once but I doubt that will happen.
>
> Civil. Forbidden to speak about the case. And no,
> didn't get tossed.
> They didn't ask much about what I did, but last time
> I served, in
> 1997, they did. I told them, and one of the lawyers
> said, "Is that
> like a socialist view of the financial markets?" I
> said, "yeah, you
> could say that." They picked me anyway.
>
> I think New York County uses more jurors per capita
> than anywhere
> else, so we all do our time here. I'm not
> complaining - I think the
> jury system is terrific.
>
> Doug
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