Booted off my first jury panel

[pegkerr]

It was interesting. I spent the morning in the basement of the court building. I had brought reading material but ended up reading the magazines they have scattered around.

Around 2:00 p.m., I was called up for voir dire for a civil medical malpractice case. After about an hour of questioning the potential jurors, they struck four (peremptory challenge). I was one of the four stricken. One of my attorneys had been on a medical malpractice case, suing the defendant, within the past six months. That, I expect, was the reason why.

So, I will not be hearing that case. I went back to the basement and read magazines ("Read JLo's secrets for Maintaining Fabulous Thighs!") until it was time to go home.

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Voir dire is fascinating. The case I was called in on was a civil suit after a car accident. Some of the challenges were obvious, some I could ferret out a guess...some I was really baffled by and really wanted to find out the reasoning behind! But courtroom psychology is one of those subjects where the more I find out, the more terrified I am of our justice system, so maybe it's better that I don't know.