Have you ever served on a jury? I have once and experienced voir dire twice

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9. Yes, twice and I am going in for jury selection next Monday

First time on a jury, we never made it into the courtroom. The defendant plead out after she got into the court room. I guess the reality kicked in. She'd had so many speeding tickets - many in school zones - they took her license away. And she did it again so many times, the DA finally had her charged with felony level offenses. I'm glad we didn't have to go through the trial, but boy, we were all pissed she wasted our time and the court time.

The second jury was a guy who bit a woman's lip off. Complicated case, with indications he had some serious problems. But his attorney stipulated that pretty much everything was true so we didn't have much choice but to find him guilty. I felt bad for the young man who had just graduated from college, but the young woman will have horrible scars and nerve damage for the rest of her life.

Here, they do a cattle call for potential jurors about once a month and select jurors out of that pool for pretty much all the upcoming trials. So there will be about 150 people showing up, then they do a mass voir dire with general questions, then narrow it down for each trial.