Have you ever been a member of a jury? I was on a Courts Martial jury just before I retired from the Navy.

  I’ve been through that also; I’ve been summoned ten or twelve times in all, selected to serve four times, and selected as an alternate juror once but by closing arguments I was not needed so I was dismissed as the deliberations began. Of the four trials where I was a juror, one was dismissed before testimony began due to the defendant deciding to plead guilty, another was dismissed after two days for legal reasons that the judge said were private and confidential.

  In Southern California (maybe throughout the entire state, I’m not sure), there was such a system for prospective jurors to call the registrar daily to see if they should report the next morning.
  However, it was replaced several years ago by a “one-day-or-one-trial”  rule. Once summoned, prospective jurors report Monday morning and remain in the jury pool all day waiting to see if they’ll be called to a courtroom. Those who are not called by the mid afternoon are dismissed to go home as having served a full day, and will not be summoned again for at least two years, if at all. Those who are called to a courtroom may or may not pass voir dire, but either way, do not have to return to the jury pool. Of the ones who are selected to sit on a jury serve for the entirety of the trial, normally three to five days.
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  I am not the person who replied to your post.

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  Too many years of constant and unrelenting exposure to the ugly underbelly of one incident after another of grammatical error crimes with no letup in sight.
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  Thank you for the Asker’s Pick.
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