Jury duty is torture. By the time a jury is called to the courtroom they are ready to convict. Today I was summoned to do my duty. I waited from 10am until nearly 2pm before they assigned my jury panel to a judge. By the time the assigned us I was ready to put the alleged in the chair. The jury had no snacks, no fresh air, and just bored out of the minds. How can a Chicano get a fair trial when the jury is kept in such conditions? The county needs to hook up the jury waiting room with some freaking cable, a foosball machine, and some freaking cappuccino makers. Here is a picth I have for NBC. Law and Order: Jury Duty.
I can sum my experience as jury duty lockdown. Most of the peeps just keep to themselves reading a mag and jamming to their ipods. I pondered to myself, "Man, if this shit is crowded imagine the jails?" There was a hot chick there whom I wouldn't mind summoning her to duty my jury. Eventually after what left like 20 to life, we got assigned to Judge Carrie A. Zepeda. The Judge was cute, I felt like having Deputy Tom pass her a note saying "Your Honor, it would be my honor to take your family honor." The only reason I didn't was because I would be in contempt of court.
So you want to be excused from a jury? I understand that engineers and scientist are usually excused because they try to get to scientific with their verdict, too analytical for a murder case. It also helps to be excused if you have committed the crime the defendant is accused. One potential jury member was excused because he stated that he would believe the testimony of a police officer above all other witnesses, the opposite statement might also get you off the jury. Of course showing some racist and sexist attitudes might get you kicked out.