Were you dismissed from jury duty by a lawyer’s challenge?
“The two types of challenges are 1) challenges for cause, and 2) peremptory challenges. … A challenge for cause asks the judge to excuse a potential juror because he or she appears to be biased or unable to be fair. … A peremptory challenge can be used to excuse a potential juror for practically any reason other than the juror’s race or gender. Lawyers have a limited number of peremptory challenges, typically no more than ten or twelve.”
http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/objectID/33D05B12-1208-491E-8AF9D48C675D04FB/104/308/214/QNA
At jury selection for the trial I reported for, I was the prosecution’s first peremptory challenge. It was a personal injury lawsuit against a school district. My husband is a teacher. I was questioned for a long time–probably more than any other potential juror. I think the lawyer worried about me potentially alligning with the defense. I also am not afraid to speak my mind, though I consider myself a fair person.
What’s your story?
I had my door kicked in by the police and my house was destroyed during their search. They cut open my couch, put holes in my walls looking for drugs that were not there.
The address on the search warrant showed the house next door.
OOPS
Then they arrested me an took me to jail for 20 hours to make sure “that I couldn’t tip off the neighbor that the warrant was really for”
4 years later I just happened to get called for a jury duty with a case that was almost identical to what happened to me and quite frankly I would have voted to hang the police in that case.
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