Jury Duty

I am on Jury Duty this week and today was my first day. I was all excited and ready to serve my civic duty. I have been so anxious about it and dying to serve on a trial, but today was an eye opening experience! First of all just getting there and listening to the 2 hour instructions was exhausting in itself. Then finally after lunch my name got called for Criminal Court. They called 50 people for a 14 person jury and I went over there to the courtroom. They drew at random 20 people and asked 1 million questions, like marital status, kids, where you work, ever been the victim of a crime, etc. Each side got to strike jurors and then they picked 10 more at random and ended up with their jury out of those numbers. The defendant was in the room about 10 feet from me and he kept looking back at us which was so freaky. So no robbery trial for me today, but I go back tomorrow for more fun with the great citizens of Memphis!