When I say Jury, you say Duty!

So I got that beloved letter in the mail a month ago saying my presence has been respectfully demanded to be at the Mishawaka Court house on Sept. 11th. Of course a phone call proceeded the letter a few weeks later.

I went early Tuesday morning as summoned to the court house and sat through a 3 hour process of jury selection.
Guess what. I got picked.
Why? I have not a clue.
6 out of 20 people selected and I was 1 out of 20.
I think it's because I was honest. What was my reason for not being able to stay.

Um sorry judge, I can't stay because I have to work just like everyone else.
No. I just said it's an inconvience.
So let me give you some advice.
Give em a good reason, unless you are like me. To honest.
I can't lie, especially when under oath.
Anways.

It was a rediculous cival case.
A lady was in a MVA had medical bills that she wanted to get payed, plus compensation and pain and suffering and let's just say she just wanted to use this to pay for her new landscaped yard and vacations she had recently taken with her family, plus the fact that she had horrible back pain, due to the expensive high heal shoes she was wearing.

The defendant. An old man. Whom we believe had no insurance and was paying out of his own pocket.
We the jury did what was right.
Gave the lady just enough money to pay off her medical bills and left her with a few thousand to pay off her attourney at law.
Which in my personal opinon had no real evidence, or argument for this case, neither did the defendant's attourney.

It was a dissappointing but satisfactory case.
The look on the face of the woman and her lawyer made me happy.
They thought for sure we would have pity on her for her "getting old pains" not car accident pains and let the old man pay for every medical bill encoured till the day they both die.
Nope.
Not here.
Yes the old man needed to take responsibilty for his recklessness.
But she didn't need to take all his money either.
What can I say.
Justice was served.
The best part is every juror got along pretty well.

Plus I asked if we could pray before we made the descisions and everyone agreed.
I was scared out of my mind to ask 5 total strangers to pray with me before we many any move, and they all agreed.
Happily agreed to pray with me.

how cool is that.

Anyways.
Two days of jury duty has wore me out.
I am off.