Three years ago I served on Grand Jury for four months. We met as the case load required which ended up being about 1-2 days per month. Grand Jury was very eye opening. I did not realize how many felony level crimes were being charged in the rural county that I live in.

I would say about 98% of the cases were so blatantly obvious of being felony level. In about 20% of the cases my thought was that this does not need to go to trial....get a rope and save the tax money now. Then there was one case where a baby died as a result of the negligence of about eight people. The prosecutor wanted a fish to fry and quite frankly all of us on the Grand Jury wanted to take a baseball bat to all eight, but buy law there was no 'smoking gun' in the case and no one was charged.

It was a learning experience and I am glad for the opportunity. With that said I don't think that I would care to serve on a trial jury.