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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9593701" data-attributes="member: 23751">I've only been called to jury duty twice in my life, the first time about 11 years ago. It took them 25 years to call me for the first time.  Anyway, when I got to the court for the actual jury selection, there were a lot of us, and each side had three lawyers sitting there. I knew from that alone that it was going to be a big case.  Then the judge tells us that he expects the trial to go at least three weeks.  That was the second clue that it was a big case. Most trials are less than a week.We were eventually told that the plaintiff was in a ford pickup truck and when he got into an accident, the cab of the truck detached completely and went flying.  He was hurt pretty badly.  All of us filled out the questionnaires and then questions started.  Things went pretty quickly from person to person with the initial questions until they got to a woman who had been a Playboy bunny.  Then all of a sudden all 6 male lawyers and the male judge got really interested in asking more questions.  The judge even asked a few that had nothing to do with the case.  The lawyers didn't even begin to get through all of the questions for us, so we arrived the next morning to continue jury selection.  When we got there the judge announced that the case had settled right before we arrived.  Then he said he was really disappointed that it settled, because Court TV was going to be there airing the trial live.  Personally I was relieved that it settled, because while I've always wanted to experience being on a jury, I didn't want to do so for 3+ weeks, unable to work.  A week I could do.  Three would have killed me financially at the time.The second time I got the jury selection letter, I never even made it to the courthouse.  I called in every evening and got the message that I didn't have to show up in the morning.  At the end of the week my duty was discharged.</blockquote>

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