Jury Duty

[Tashee]

A homophobic whatever made a scene at our court house. When the poor Lady left we were waiting to cuff her. It sucked! I hated it. She was harassed and harassed. The tables turned shortly with a counter suit a wrongful police report etc. But the damage was done.

I see extreme cases it makes me jaded. best of luck to you.

[Paulacder]

I have served on Jury Duty a couple times but never as Paula. The only problem I can see is during the jury selection process questions will be asked directly to you from the Prosecutor and the Defense Attorney. Some of the questions may be personal in nature. These questions are asked in front of the rest of the prospective jurors and the Judge. I'm not sure I would want to share transitions questions the might be asked. But Good Luck.....

[StaceyJane]

I did jury duty a year ago and I got a lot out of it. Although we did have to pronouce a man "not guilty" even though we felt he probably did it. The processcution just did not provide any real evidence to support the story.
Now I didn't try to go en femme but now that I think about it hummmmm.....

[Intertwined]

I gave a lot of hard thought to the questions I might be asked if I made it up to the point of being picked.

To the most obvious question " Are you dressed like that to try and get out of jury duty? " what I was planning on saying " NO, I am dressed like this, because this is who I am, and if I get choosen, or not choosen to be on this jury, I want it to be for 'Who I Am and not a facade', anything else would be unfair to the deffendant"

In that skirt and corset, I wound up in a jury pool, that took 2 days to seat the jury. It was a murder trial, I never made it to the jury box for questioning, but if I had, I don't think I would have ever been choosen, but, not for the crossdressing, one of the standard questions they asked all the prospective jurours was " Do you have any relatives convicted of a crime? ", where I have to answer, " Yes ", my stepfather is serving a Life sentance for 1st degree murder, I think that would have blown my chances at a murder case.

[Stephanie Scott]

I have served on Jury Duty a couple times but never as Paula. The only problem I can see is during the jury selection process questions will be asked directly to you from the Prosecutor and the Defense Attorney. Some of the questions may be personal in nature. These questions are asked in front of the rest of the prospective jurors and the Judge. I'm not sure I would want to share transitions questions the might be asked. But Good Luck.....

Every judge handles their courtrooms and the voir dire process differently. Personal questions can usually be answered at sidebar, if someone is uncomfortable answering in front of the rest of the jurors.

Every case and every lawyer is different about "stereotyping." Jury selection isn't a science; it is an art. One can't say that lawyers "usually pick" or "usually don't pick" -- especially based on a given person's limited individual exposure to serving on juries. A juror who might be great for one case could be lousy for another (e.g., someone who was the victim of child abuse may not be the most objective trier of fact in a child abuse prosecution but might be a great juror for a civil torts lawsuit or something).

Next to military service, I believe jury service to be the highest calling of our citizenry.

The system isn't perfect because it is ... well ... run by imperfect humans, but it actually is a great system and works as it is designed most of the time. Most jurors end up being glad that they served, and most juries do the right thing.

[Christina Nicole]

All right!! I had jury duty last year and I was seriously debating about going enfemme.. But decided not to and when I walked in there was a friend and coworker in the same jury pool!! But here's a hint if you don't want to get picked.. They did not choose well dressed, educated men.. Which I and my friend were.. They did choose poorly dressed, middle aged women, mainly.. So if maybe you want to dress up a bit rather than dress down!!

Agree with Karren. Everytime I've been in a jury pool I saw a lot of people I know. If you are not out, then don't go en-femme. Also agree with being well dressed. I always wear an expensive suit and always get challenged by the defense attorney. A prosecutor I know says that the defense prefers ignorant people since they are easier to sway, and have problems evaluating and weighting complex facts.

A homophobic whatever made a scene at our court house. When the poor Lady left we were waiting to cuff her. It sucked! I hated it. She was harassed and harassed. The tables turned shortly with a counter suit a wrongful police report etc. But the damage was done.

I see extreme cases it makes me jaded. best of luck to you.

There must be more to that story. What charge was brought that she was arrested?

Warm regards,
Christina Nicole