In my experience with jury duty in several locations, you should mostly expect waiting around in a big room, and possibly in a court room. There's some possibility you'll be asked to answer questions the lawyers and judge would use to decide if you're suitable for their jury, and your views of prisons may or may not come into play. But I've only gotten that far (voir dire) twice out of four times I've been called. Someone I know got released after honestly saying she couldn't send anyone to prison for a drug crime because she thought the laws were unjust.

Lucy was not a licker, but we had a cat for a long time who licked earlobes, and drooled while he did it.

Liese, I just got called for jury duty a couple of weeks ago. My experience: check in in the morning, then a couple of hours of waiting around (which was surrounded by people, but I didn't have to talk to them or anything (hooray for free wifi)), then judge assignment. We were a pool for a civil trial, so attitudes towards prison didn't come up, but about lawsuits in general and the specifics of the case did - filled out a survey before reporting to the courtroom. Maybe 2/3 of our pool got questioned over the course of the day, but I didn't, and it went on all day, which everyone said was unusual, but be prepared for that, I guess.

Oh, and they had estimated how long the trial was apt to take. People who had prepaid vacations scheduled during that time were excused from serving; people who would be missing work or had child care issues were not excused by the judge, but most of them were excused by the lawyers, I think.

My friend Curtis had a dog who was an ear licker and was, um, good at it.

It was frequent. Morgan would fly into a lap. The snuggling would start. In short order he'd go for the ears and the person would get this look...

It was fairly hysterical.

Yeah, Kat, I figure they`ll boot me if I voice my views about prisons (the entire system is deeply flawed (with apologies to our Buffista lawyers) and the punitive end of it particularly so, especially as regards minorities). But I don`t know how that would play out, empathy for the accused, empathy for the victim, in the actual courtroom.
 
I was joking today that the case I get will probably be that of our little local former fire chief who was accused of having stolen about a million dollars from our station, leaving firefighters unpaid and us without a fire station, during which time our neighborhood bar burned down. And then I`ll be all JAIL, SUCKA!

Walter's a toe licker. He does the occasional drive-by as well as occasionally settling in for some serious lickage. I don't mind, and he's pretty good about stopping if the lickee objects.

Ooh, wifi. I bet my county superior court doesn`t have wifi. But maybe I should bring the laptop anyway? Will they let me? And importantly, the website says I can, nay should, bring my knitting. So I need to get that into a workable bag.

Trudy, backsent. (Short answer: yes, with a but).

I've only been called for criminal court, I think, and they were: sexual assault or domestic violence (pled out while we were there), drugs (I was on the jury, and we hung), sexual assault (pled out after I got put on the jury), and some regular assault, I think (I got released after talking about the guy I know who was in prison). So I guess I've been in the jury-selection pool every time I've gone, but only actually served on the one jury.

I`m worried I`ll be the person responsible for a hung jury! I`ll be singlehandedly subverting justice! The victim`s day in court will all be for naught! OR I`ll convict wrongly and years from now the person will show up in my drug rehab class and will be all You! OR I`ll rightfully convict, causing infinite pain for a wife and family who are somewhere innocent of all this!
 
See what I mean re: Brane, shut up!?