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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2280633" data-attributes="member: 31094">I've served on 2 juries.  I've been called for jury duty two seperate times; the first time, I never had to show up, because I called the night before as instructed and my number wasn't called.  The second time, I showed up, got put on a jury of a trial that lasted a whole 6 hours.  After that, they said "Heck, you guys are a good jury, we'll have you do a 2nd trial."  That 2nd trial lasted the rest of the week. The first one was a man who was on trial for assault for hitting his girlfriend.  Unfortunately for the prosecution, the girlfriend sat up there and say "ehh I deserved it."  So the jury voted to acquit.  The second trial was a man suing the teenaged girl who hit the car he was riding in with her car.  Unfortunately for him, he had a history of back problems before the accident, was saying he was suffering indescribable back pain from the accident, but had missed physical therapy 2 out of 3 sessions since the accident.  He didn't get any money from us.  I think juries in Iowa tend to be pretty stingy - we're pretty hard-working and practical. The lawyer in the 2nd trial was just nasty to his client.  It was quite amusing.  You could really tell he didn't like his client one bit (the man who was suing).  The plaintiff was an immigrant from another country and had a thick accent, so the lawyer, when he was questioning him, kept getting frustrated that he was struggling to make his english understandable; he'd interrupt him and try to finish his sentences for him (which the judge was having none of).  Then the defense lawyer would get up and talk to the plaintiff and be nice and understanding and draw out what the guy meant to say.  I really didn't like that defense lawyer one bit.  Maybe that's why I didn't vote to give his client money.  Hmmm.... No, his client was a moron.</blockquote>

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