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Subject: Re: Battle of the Crowns -- current results

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 17:07:17 08/29/00

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On August 29, 2000 at 00:01:51, Dann Corbit wrote:

><OT>
>Only on Jury duty for 2 days.  Never got selected for a jury, but had one close
>call (the prosecutor and defense attorney were both fine with me, but the
>defendant went into a panicky lather and started chatting really excitedly with
>his attorney, so I got left off of that jury.).
>
>I got paid TWENTY DOLLARS FOR JURY DUTY!!!
>
>That's right!  Ten dollars per day.  No wonder so many people are clamoring to
>do it.  We also got to watch a movie about the judicial process.  Did you know
>that juries *NEVER* make the wrong decision?  At least that's what one judge
>said.

That's a pretty rotten deal. I just got chosen as an electorate for a referendum
to be held late september. I'm getting about 80$ and four meals for a one day
duty. That's a pretty sweet deal IMO, since I don't have do anything special.

Mogens.



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