My Day with the Broward County Courts

I'm pretty ticked off at 500 people who live in Broward County.
I spent seven hours with them yesterday in a jury pool. I wanted to be there. They did not.

While I sat there so hoping to fulfill my civic duty of serving on a trial, allowing some defendant to get his or her fair day in court, everyone around me moaned and complained about having to be there and how awful it was the government made them do it.

And the scary thing is, I wouldn't want some of them serving on a trial that would determine my fate! I mean, really … if you can't follow simple instructions like "Don't bring coffee into this room," or "Don't talk on your cell phone," then how can you possibly interpret laws in a way to make a fair judgment on behalf of a defendant?

Yet, these are the people whose numbers kept being called while I sat and waited.

Perhaps God was protecting me. You see, I have an incredibly naïve and Polly-Anna perspective on life. Matt has denied my access to watching NBC Dateline because I end up in such a funk after watching it. Maybe the 27 trials in the Broward County courts yesterday were of such perverted and vile nature that God knew my brain couldn't go there.

So, I'll just have to settle for serving my civic duty when I go to vote in my first Broward County election on November 4. I hope my chads don't hang.

Comments

[Jose Lopez]

Janie, thank you for being socially responsible in doing your civic duty. I wish more people were like you.

Hopefully there aren't any chads, or else Florida will need to go old school and have people drop rocks in a hole.

[Jen Hills]

I can't believe that you have already been called to jury duty?!? I too would find it fascinating to sit on a jury--although my experiences in the court room have not been pleasant. Way to be a true civil servant! :)

Bye friend!

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Hey Janie, I've been there and it was not fun. I spent a day with a so called "jury of my peers" that just could not grasp the concept that a turn signal turns off when the steering wheel of a vehicle turns back to it's resting position. It is truly scary to think that people with no common sense or ability to reason are the ones determining the guilt or innocence of us all.

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