Jury Duty
Just to let you know, I wasn't chosen to be on a jury. As it turned out, I didn't have a chance. I'll explain. In Texas, a pool of future jurors are subpeoned to appear on Monday morning. My county seends out 600 notices to try to get 300 appearances. The potential jurors are sent to the various courts, district courts, courts-at-law, and justices of the peace. Forty-five are needed for each district court and I was sent to one of them. Although only 30 are needed to choose a jury, the extra 15 are there in case there are excused people in the first 30. Well, I was in the last 15 on the list. That's a pretty good chance of not being chosen. But the trial was in my favor too. It was an aggravated robbery case. The assistant district attorney asked if anyone had been involved in a robbery and, of course, I raised my hand. Yall know I was robbed at gunpoint about 30 years ago. He asked me how long ago I was robbed and I told him. He asked if it still affects me and I said yes. He asked how. I told him I've never forgotten it and could tell him the robber's name, how tall he was, his weight and even how he combed his hair. And I told him how I picked the man out of a mug file, how much prison time he got and that he'd gotten out on parole, then had to go back to prison. That pretty much took me out of the running.
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