Civic Duty

I was thrown out of my "norm" this week, as I was summoned to jury duty for the State Court.  After reporting Monday morning, once my panel of 15 people were called, we entered the court room.  After a few questions, that seems pretty generic to me, I was one of the six chosen jurors.  The trial lasted a day and a half of testimonies and evidence presented, then it was up to us to decide.  I was voted in as "head juror", then we went to work reviewing all the evidence that had been presented.  I was amazed at how quickly all six of us came to the same conclusion, defendant was found guilty.  Plaintiff was awarded $6K of the $20K she was asking for.  I was out of there and given a big ole check of $50 for my time LOL.  It was actually not as bad as I had heard, and a task that I can add to my list of things I have experienced.  I hope everyone (well not really everyone), I guess everyone with an open mind and honest values gets to serve on a jury one day :)