Originally Posted by MTUpower

Great experience and thank you DM for your jury duty service. I'm quite glad the trial was as short one. $15 a day doesn't buy enough food to ward off the cold... lol.

Originally Posted by suginami

I served on a trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court that lasted almost two weeks.

I can't remember all of the charges against the two defendants, but IIRC correctly there were at least seven charges, the worst of which were murder in the first degree, assault with a deadly weapon (a knife), assault with a deadly weapon (a gun), evading arrest, child abuse, kidnapping, burglary, etc.

The two defendants committed all of the above crimes over a period of about a week.

We found them guilty on all counts on every charge. Even the first degree portion of the murder charge.

We found out after the verdict that they were gang members of a violent gang. They would not let us leave the courthouse in the normal way. We were escorted out through the back hallways of the courthouse, down a special elevator, out of a back door of the courthouse, and escorted across the street to our cars by about two dozen police officers.

It was an emotional, unique experience.

Needless to say, I was concerned about being followed home, so I pretended to be CIA, and didn't drive directly home. I went about 24 miles in the opposite direction, got on and off the freeway randomly, made sudden U-turns, etc.

Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

I don't blame you for the caution you exercised ! After the verdict was read, the couple I helped negate of their bogus civil lawsuit against a municipality, were exiting the parking garage at the same time the car I was in was exiting. I was concerned about what they potentially might do too. Thankfully, it went incident free.