Jury duty over

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Dismissed. Hooray! I guess they didn't want someone with extensive experience in the Middle East and fairly strong views on religious persecution and immigration on that particular case. I thought they might not.

Hooray! I don't have to try to do two jobs at once. Phew.

Comments

[whthorse.livejournal.com]

Great news. I was surprised that the trial was set for 6 weeks long. That would have really put a cramp in things.

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

Yah. Federal trial instead of DC...which I guess makes it longer. It also meant it was in a different courthouse than the DC one, and that they pay you $40 a day (instead of $4 a day or whatever it is at the DC one). It was actually a case that had been transferred from Detroit! The only bummer is that it sounded really interesting - but also difficult. I probably would not have been a very good juror for the case - too emotionally involved.

6 weeks of trying to do my job at CTE on the evenings and weekends would have been horrible, I have to say. I am so relieved that I was dismissed.