But for me, this time, I had little choice as to how I would spend my three-week vacation. Go judge a stranger.
Jury duty is weird.
It's something so natural, like breathing. We all have our biases, but we're so used to them we accept them as normal and don't even question them. And so when you get called for jury duty, at first it doesn't seem to be all that special. If you find a man guilty, he may have to go to prison, or, in a murder case, the electric chair. You could be responsible for another person's death.