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I got called three back in California (where, BTW, they use both DMV and voter registration, which sometimes results in people getting called twice in less than a year).
The first time I was in the jury pool for two trials. The first was a child abuse and the second was a rape. I was dismissed for cause both times, and policy at the time in my county was that if you got called twice and not seated, you were done. Three days of sitting around in the jury selecting room, but it was cool, as it was summer and I didn't have anything to do anyway. I read like six books and a hundred comic books.
The second time, I didn't get called the first day for a trial, so I was done.
The third trial was a lawsuit filed against the county sheriff's department claiming harassment and voilation of civil rights. In the trial itself, we found out that the plaintiff was a chronic offender who was stalking the wife of one of the deputies, and had literally nobody to corroborate any of his claims.
We voted in favor of the defendants, the Sheriff's department and four named deputies in the first vote. Thinking, well, we should at least talk about the evidence, so we did for half an hour, examining each claim in detail, at the end of which we decided that the guy was a flake and that the only thing we coulnd't figure out with any clarity was why the judge didn't issue a bench verdict based on the complete lack of any evidence.
Gilda
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