Tomorrow, I have jury duty.
I’ve been called for jury duty four times before, and I’ve served on two juries. First, a drunk driving case (guilty), and a few years later an assault and battery charge (not guilty).
At the second trial, when I was led into the courtroom to impanel the jury I was surprised to see that one of the prospective jurors was a neighbor of mine. We served on the same trial, which ran into a second day. We didn’t discuss the case with our spouses, but when we drove in together the next morning we talked about it, and nothing we heard during the remaining testimony changed our minds that the charge was bogus.