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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
I got out of jury duty a few years ago because I told the lawyers that I don't believe in HOAs. I don't think the HOA plaintiff really liked my rant on property rights.
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Taking this tangent and running with it...
I was a member of a jury pool last year for a automobile products liability claim (the case was estimated to take around 6 weeks to litigate, so there was a huge jury pool and attorneys and the judge started questioning members of the pool after the hardship people were sent home) and I thought 99% of the people who claimed bias as a reason not to serve were full of shit. Seriously, there was a woman who got up in the witness stand and said that she doesn't believe in cars. She thinks that everyone should ride bikes or take public transport. Whatever.
I was in fact biased against the plaintiff's case after hearing the attorneys' synopsis of their case, but didn't serve (don't know whether I would have made the panel, but the attorneys in the pool who were called ahead of me all were thrown out by one side or the other) because my grandma was in home hospice and took a bad turn during the selection process. I had to go in chambers with the judge and attorneys to be excused from the process after a few days of watching the goings on (my grandma died the day after I was excused). Pretty interesting process, really.
