One of my biggest fears.
One of my biggest fears is being summoned for jury duty. I'll claim I'm racist if it helps me get out of it.
shareSure "claim"....
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I work in psychology and never ever get picked. It makes for a frustrating day.
shareDo they think you might use your psychology knowledge to determine if someone is guilty?
shareIt's mostly because I can more easily see lies than others. More importantly, a psych person may be very compassionate toward people.
In psych there's no such thing as "free will" which invalidates the way law approaches cases.
It seems like you would be beneficial.
shareI have always wanted to do it!
When I'm in professional mode, I'm very objective and ethical in my judgments.
But for real, I vowed to always work with poor people and so I tend to be treatment oriented when it comes to drugs, theft, and stuff like that. I did work in the prison system for ten years and tend to be hard on sex offenses, rape, murder, and assaulting innocent people. Also, when it comes to economic stuff, I'm for the little guy, so I do have my biases.
I'm sure most people are like that.
shareI requested a deferral the first time I received a summons, and then just ignored all the rest that followed.
shareI did it in 1995 and I almost ended up on the Paul Bernardo murder case. Just so happened I was in another jury pool across the hall from the Bernardo case jury pool. I saw all the media and family members everyday. Too close for comfort.
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