After seven days of utter boredom, my privileged duty to the United States government, or at least a county in Ohio, adjourned yesterday. Hopefully it will be a long time before I have to return to Franklin County’s Court of Common Pleas as a potential juror or otherwise.
Besides the couple hours spent in preparation for a murder case which never happened, which I mentioned in the last post, I read. And sat. And sat and read and sat and read and read and sat some more. And after fighting off falling asleep in my folding chair because I was so tired of reading, I read some more. While I sat. And finally they let us out for lunch where I ate while I sat and read.
Continue reading ‘Uneventful jury duty ends’
I only have seven minutes this morning, so I have to make this quick.
Jury duty for Franklin County’s Common Pleas Court so far has been outrageously boring. There have been a couple interesting parts. Seeing the courtrooms and almost being sat for a murder case, but overall it has only been a bunch of waiting.
I arrived Monday at 8 a.m., shelled out my $5 for parking, and joined the other 199 or so jurors in filling out paperwork. We listened to the jury commissioner go on and on about fulfilling our civic duty and then watched a video staring NBC4’s own Angela Pace, educating us on the difference between civil and criminal court.
In other words, it was more boring than high school social studies.
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