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Dec. 8th, 2005
My day in court
Dec. 8th, 2005 03:17 pmI went in for jury duty this afternoon.
I caught the #47 bus at Van Ness & Market and got to the courthouse a little before 1:30pm. The jury room was quite full. Maybe a few hundred people. Shortly after 1:30pm, some woman gave some instructions, and started calling off names. I was in the first group.
My group went downstairs to the courtroom, and who do I see as the court reporter? Why, it's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bestbear_icanbe. He laughed when he finally noticed me. They called roll. I swear that there was a Steven Huang, a Steven Rong, and a Steven Wong there today. They all confused themselves with each other.
The judge gave some instructions and then sent everyone on break except those with "hardship excuses" and "language problems." I stayed behind.bestbear_icanbe handed out forms for people to write down their hardship excuses. Then the judge heard from those who claimed to have language problems. Oh. My. God. Scott has to put up with this all the time? There were a few people who went to high school locally and got their diplomas. Um, yeah, you speech English just fine.
I'm out of town next Monday and Tuesday. The judge just asked me when I wanted to come back. I said December 19th. I figured with Christmas, it might make for some short court days. I'm sorry that I couldn't stay for this trial. It sounded like it might be a short trial and only working in the afternoons. Dang. Plus Scott was the court reporter!
I got out of there before 2:30pm. Sweet.
I caught the #47 bus at Van Ness & Market and got to the courthouse a little before 1:30pm. The jury room was quite full. Maybe a few hundred people. Shortly after 1:30pm, some woman gave some instructions, and started calling off names. I was in the first group.
My group went downstairs to the courtroom, and who do I see as the court reporter? Why, it's
bestbear_icanbe. He laughed when he finally noticed me. They called roll. I swear that there was a Steven Huang, a Steven Rong, and a Steven Wong there today. They all confused themselves with each other.The judge gave some instructions and then sent everyone on break except those with "hardship excuses" and "language problems." I stayed behind.
bestbear_icanbe handed out forms for people to write down their hardship excuses. Then the judge heard from those who claimed to have language problems. Oh. My. God. Scott has to put up with this all the time? There were a few people who went to high school locally and got their diplomas. Um, yeah, you speech English just fine.I'm out of town next Monday and Tuesday. The judge just asked me when I wanted to come back. I said December 19th. I figured with Christmas, it might make for some short court days. I'm sorry that I couldn't stay for this trial. It sounded like it might be a short trial and only working in the afternoons. Dang. Plus Scott was the court reporter!
I got out of there before 2:30pm. Sweet.