Jury Duty? Well...
You can imagine my surprise the night before I was due to report for jury duty when, after i called the courthouse, I found out that my jury date had been postponed by a couple of weeks. I'm willing to serve. I'm even willing to rearrange my schedule in order to comply with my civic duty. I rescheduled an appointment with my kidney specialist just to be available. But, I do not like being jerked around. Now I'm sure that the court has their reasons for postponing the trial. But I still don't like it, especially when i read in the newspaper this morning that a murder trial, due to begin yesterday, the same day I was originally scheduled to serve, was postponed. Now I do not relish the idea of serving on a murder case. So I started thinking of things I could say in order to assure myself of not getting seated.
1) Is he guilty? Why else would he have been arrested.
2) Am I prejudice? Of course! I believe in right and wrong, good and evil, heaven and hell.
3) Can I be unbiased? Sure! He's probably going to hell anyway.
The only problem with this is that my conscience won't allow me to do it. But it's tempting.
1) Is he guilty? Why else would he have been arrested.
2) Am I prejudice? Of course! I believe in right and wrong, good and evil, heaven and hell.
3) Can I be unbiased? Sure! He's probably going to hell anyway.
The only problem with this is that my conscience won't allow me to do it. But it's tempting.
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