cc48510, as much as I hate to say this, I think we need to get some real American jurors like ourselves into our court rooms. I just watched a very interesting self defense case where the jury didn't understand anything about a mans right to self defense. This poor bastard had a gun pulled on him by a crank head and ended up killing the crank head after exchanging shots. The jury proceedings were open to cameras and what transpired in that room made me sick to my stomach. I had very little faith in our justice system after I got put through the wringer myself, but now I am absolutely positive that our courts are completely in the hands of the sheeple. Please do your best to get true justice served in America.

Do your best to get on jury duty!

Too many people have been led to believe they only have 1 vote in this country. You actually have 3, jury duty being one of them, your vote here could actually lead to a nullification of some stupid law. The 3rd would be sitting on a Grand Jury.

Unfortunately for me, I've only been on jury duty twice, both were for someone suing someone else from car accidents.

The first one was rather clear cut case...Not Guilty.

The second was a man trying to sue another man for back problems due to an accident. For some reason, 10 of the jurist tried to ignore the fact he had been involved in another accident 1 week later in which he was suing the other person for the exact same thing!

After 7 hours, me and another guy convinced everyone else to vote not guilty, not because of the other case, but just simply because there was no way he could have been that hurt from the little fender bender he was in.

Your prevailing mind is needed!

Jury duty is a pain because requests for jury trials are sometimes abused. Either side may think that the other will offer a better deal rather than go through with the trial. This is usually true, too. Most cases that come on for trial do not actually go to trial. Usually the jurors sit around reading newspapers for a few hours and then are told "Thanks Go home." So a whole pool of jurors go whom not too impressed with having wasted a morning at the courthouse while their children are being babysat, or things are piling up at work, and so on.

However most jurors I have talked to who actually sat and heard a case, or part of it, enjoyed, or at least got something out of, the experience. I have jurors come up to me after a trial if they recognize me and ask questions about the case and tell me what they thought about the case.

Most jurors are pretty good-they listen and really do try to do the right thing (the last trial I did I got a fact wrong in my closing argument & saw several jurors shake their heads "no" at me-they had that part read back and they were right and I was wrong). 'Course I have also seen jurors (and a judge) fall asleep during trial (not my fault-I usually try and put on an interesting trial [:)])

Click and Read.  That's an order, Patriot.