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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive
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.
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The HOA thing is a longstanding belief. I mean, it's not like the easter bunny or santa claus. I believe that HOAs exist. I just don't believe in subjecting my own property to one.
I was a little sad two weeks ago when the criminal trial that we were supposed to hear got dismissed (the guy plead while we were walking over from the jury assembly room and got 20 years, I assume he must have done something pretty violent). I was number 13 of the pool, so when we were walking over I assumed that, absent some pretty major bias, I was going to end up on that jury, and I was looking forward to it. I realized that I probably would have been tossed, though, when I walked into the courtroom. I went to law school with the prosecutor, and she used to work out at my gym. I don't know if I would have been biased towards her for that reason, but I'm sure I would have been challenged for cause because of that longstanding aquaintance.
