Jury Service

Paigntonian | 18:14 Sat 27th Aug 2022 | Body & Soul

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Got the brown envelope today, at the age of 62. Have to make myself available for ten days in October. Initial reaction, bore. But then thought it might be interesting.

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JimF

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Get yourself a Bob Marley T-shirt - the one where he's smoking the massive spliff with the "LEGALIZE IT" lettering. Wear that.

18:20 Sat 27th Aug 2022

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barry1010

Hope it's interesting, it will be an experience and change of routine anyway

davebro

It probably will be a bore - get out of it, bad back (unable to sit for prolonged periods) , taking any form of anti-depressants, make something up.

JimF

Get yourself a Bob Marley T-shirt - the one where he's smoking the massive spliff with the "LEGALIZE IT" lettering.

Wear that.

Paigntonian

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Think I'll stick with my Stones sweatshirt JimF. Yeah, guys, hope for the best. Possible might be interesting.

gingejbee

It can be boring, it can be interesting...it can be harrowing (I had several days on a child sex abuse case).

davebro

You might go & not get picked. You might end up with something trivial that only takes a day or two. You might get a case where the evidence is particularly distressing or a fraud/insurance case that takes weeks & bores the pants off you.
If you are prepared for all those eventualities go for it.

Paigntonian

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ginge: To be frank I would find that terribly distressing. I'm not even sure I could cope. That said won't have a choice. God, I do hope not.

Paigntonian

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Davebro: Points taken. Luck of the draw I suppose.

The Builder

I did it once. I really enjoyed it. Try to be Foreman if you can. It's much more fun.
If you volunteer, it makes it all a bit quicker, since the first half an hour or so is taken up by everybody worrying themselves to death that they might have to do it :o)

One of my cases was a GBH. An ear-biting in a pub fracas in.........
Torquay (no change there then.)

drmorgans

How do they decide who gets picked for the really long cases (several weeks, months), which could be much more than 10 days?

davebro

//If the trial is likely to last longer than 10 days, jury staff will let you know. //

Doesn't say they'll excuse you.

Paigntonian

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The Builder. I'm five mins from Torquay. Hope the perpetrator wasn't me.

The Builder

I had to stand up and say "guilty".
The funny thing was, i could see you had your bag already packed ;o)

davebro

If I did it (I won't) I would be Henry Fonda in "12 Angry Men".
Just dreaming.

Arrods

When I was on jury service I suffered the indignity of the foreman insisting that we should send a note to the judge asking why the prosecution counsel didn’t ask one of the witnesses if she recognised the defendant at the time of the alleged offence. The judge was quite nice about it, considering!