Tanya photo.
I did the San Diego jury duty as required.
I was highly pleased that I was able to take the "Sprinter" train from Escondido to the Vista station and ride my bike on over to the court house through the very heavy morning traffic--and arrive before the 0800 deadline.
We 250 prospective jurors whiled away the time from 8 until noon when we were ALL sent home.
How lucky we are in this country and state to have a jury trial guaranteed to us--a jury of our peers----just plain ordinary citizens chosen at random--random?--well from the DMV lists so not entirely at random--no homeless folks, etc. but almost random.
Still, it is pretty impressive that it can happen.
When we were told we could leave, the lady in charge said--"Take it easy driving out of the parking lot since there will be 250 cars all trying to exit at once".
"No", I thought, "249 cars and one bicycle!"
I was highly pleased that I was able to take the "Sprinter" train from Escondido to the Vista station and ride my bike on over to the court house through the very heavy morning traffic--and arrive before the 0800 deadline.
We 250 prospective jurors whiled away the time from 8 until noon when we were ALL sent home.
How lucky we are in this country and state to have a jury trial guaranteed to us--a jury of our peers----just plain ordinary citizens chosen at random--random?--well from the DMV lists so not entirely at random--no homeless folks, etc. but almost random.
Still, it is pretty impressive that it can happen.
When we were told we could leave, the lady in charge said--"Take it easy driving out of the parking lot since there will be 250 cars all trying to exit at once".
"No", I thought, "249 cars and one bicycle!"
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