The last time I had to actually *go* to jury duty, which was probably at least twelve years ago, I was actually briefly put through voir dire.
Very briefly.
Apparently, when I said that I didn't feel I could make any kind of judgement without hearing both sides of the story, and the judge said that the law didn't require the defendant to say a thing in court, and I responded "Well, she's here, so they must have had enough evidence to arrest her, and that's going to influence how I think about this," suddenly the defense attorney felt that I wasn't suitable for his jury.
*shrug* I dunno. I wasn't lying when I said that, but I'm a different person now and I've grown up a lot. Even so, I know that my diagnosis will keep me off juries for the rest of my life; my judgement and my understanding of the world are too flawed to be useful in any situation where I'm supposed to be the judge, and could cause an innocent person a lot of legal damage.
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Date: 2005-05-17 02:17 pm (UTC)Very briefly.
Apparently, when I said that I didn't feel I could make any kind of judgement without hearing both sides of the story, and the judge said that the law didn't require the defendant to say a thing in court, and I responded "Well, she's here, so they must have had enough evidence to arrest her, and that's going to influence how I think about this," suddenly the defense attorney felt that I wasn't suitable for his jury.
*shrug* I dunno. I wasn't lying when I said that, but I'm a different person now and I've grown up a lot. Even so, I know that my diagnosis will keep me off juries for the rest of my life; my judgement and my understanding of the world are too flawed to be useful in any situation where I'm supposed to be the judge, and could cause an innocent person a lot of legal damage.