I voted [all of the above] but did NOT find it boring!
I had the opportunity to set on the jury for a murder 1 case many years ago. It is an experience that I would recommend to everyone. I don’t believe you can not take it VERY seriously and it was a lesion of how our system is suppose to work. While it has caused loathing of the abuses and manipulations by the practitioners, it left faith in the principles of fairness among a dubious specie.

My son was also tapped to do this a couple years ago and returned for one of those rare, meaningful, father-son talks, that you can only share with someone that has peeked into the same dark hole. He also happened to pull a first degree murder trial.

I personally, thank you imalikalotapuss, for supporting the essential link within the system that anchors it to the people it judges and severs. The dilemma is that the capable, intelligent, with common sense, members of our society ARE busy and committed because they ARE like Lixy, capable, intelligent, with common sense people. Some of the “news worthy” judicial events of the last decade have shown us how important a better portion of our peers can be.

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