My loyal and loving readers (ahem...all three of you) I must apologize for my week long hiatus. Not exactly how I'd envisioned launching a blog. I was a busy bee last week serving my civic duty as a juror on a very nasty murder one trial. The highlights included being escorted out of court in a paddy wagon, a renegade domestic bird attempting to make its courtroom debut, and one, count it one, free lunch.
My favorite moment came well before jury selection when I overheard this conversation:
Disheveled man approaches juror information desk
Desk attendant: "Sir, was your juror number called?"
Disheveled man: "Ummm, I don't know, I had to go home to change my pants."
In or out of context this is perhaps the funniest conversation I expected to hear at jury duty. Sadly that was the last laugh for the next 120 hours. It was an interesting case that regrettably the state will have to retry. I hope the jurors get it right the next go-around. It would be a travesty to let this guy walk free.
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