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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3816413" data-attributes="member: 32740">I agree.  I was called for jury duty twice when I was still living in Washington.  First time I just went for the free pass but the second time I wound up on a jury for about a week.  Case stemmed from an auto accident and the victim in the accident wanted to be paid for additional operations.The victim had existing problems with his back and we decided that while he deserved SOME additional money for those problems being exacerbated by the accident the surgeries he wanted the money for were definitely elective surgeries and largely addressing the problems he'd had before and NOT from the accident.  I think we awarded something like 1/10th of what the plaintiff was asking.However, a lot of the trial was spent TEDIOUSLY arguing over chiropractics - "It's not REAL medical science/ Yes it is/ the chiropractor actually caused more problems than the accident/ No, it was ALL because of the accident..."  There were also a couple of quiet discussions at the bench with the lawyers and the judge when the driver of the car that caused the accident testified.  I suspect that had to do with certain elements of his testimony having been ruled inadmissable for some reason (I think there may have been some kind of altercation afterward or the driver had been drunk) and it kept drifting in that direction.  The trial was about whether or not there should be some additional money and how much that should be, not who was actually at fault in the accident and why.Hardest part of it was that it was all up to us on the jury as to HOW MUCH money was appropriate.  It wasn't just guilty/not guilty.  We had only been given superficial information on what the surgeries were going to cost so we didn't have much choice but to just ballpark it.  You also meet some... interesting people on a jury</blockquote>

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