From the web site tonight:
“If you have a juror number between 1546 and 7000, you have not been scheduled for individual questioning at this time. However, you may be scheduled for individual questioning at a later date. Please check this website again on March 27, 2015 after 5:00 p.m. for additional information regarding the scheduling of your individual questioning session.”
I’m in the high 6000’s
They are going to drag out the getting to the part where this drags out – for months.
They finally updated the juror list and – I have to go back in for a second round of questions and answers.
When will this happen? No one knows. There are potential juror numbers between 1 and 7000, I am in the high 6000’s, the web site has information for jurors between 1 and almost 300.
I have a feeling this will take months…
The judge-directed “BE SURE TO CHECK THIS PAGE WEDNESDAY NIGHT OR YOU WILL BE KILLED” web page regarding my jury service is, as of this morning, within a few hundred people of my juror number!
At this rate, I should know if I can get on with my life some time next week… The complication to this is the next question session starts next week – so I may not know if I need to attend until it is over, or something.
While it is true, I did have unreasonable expectations that a government entity would be able to pull this off – I am also the eternal optimist.
So I was told to check the web site Wednesday evening after 6pm to see if I was still involved in this, or if I was excused and able to continue on with my life.
Wednesday evening at 6pm I checked, and the indicated area of the state web site was still missing every juror number above 5000 (I am in the high 6000’s).
This morning they have posted up most numbers into the low 6000’s, so I am still unsure if I am involved or not.
I think they dramatically underestimated the amount of effort it would be to involve 9000 people in the already ponderous legal process. 🙂
The flu I picked up at the courthouse knocked me flat for the bottom half of Tuesday and all day Wednesday – and I’m still ill with the damnable thing but I cannot be away from work any longer. So I have barricaded myself in my office to avoid spreading the plague and am trying to get caught up.
Whee!
So yesterday I got to spend many, many hours sitting in various court rooms wishing someone in charge would tell me something about what was going on.
Myself, and about 60 total strangers, sat in a cramped room with crap ventilation for a few hours before anyone bothered to come and tell us anything. Being as cellular reception was sketchy at best so the phone was of little entertainment, there was little else to do but critically observe my fellow jurors.
The court folks had provided us with a hot/cold bottled water dispenser, styrofoam cups, and a selection of Bigelow herbal teas. This allowed me to witness that one out of four random strangers will take tea over water, and one half of those will not be able to figure out the child-resistant tap on the hot water.
If these are my “peers”, I want off this planet.
Additionally, if you put 60 random people in a small stuffy room, the one sick one will manage to infect the rest – so I have developed the flu, just like the woman who was coughing all over everyone.
All in all it was a very miserable experience that continues to get worse even though I am not there…
Wednesday evening I will find out if I have been excused, or if the fun continues on.
I am off to the Arapahoe County courthouse to do my civic duty…
Unfortunately I was called for what is probably the Holmes trial – the guy who shot up that theater. If that is the case, and I’m chosen to sit on the trial, it may be 4-6 months long…
4-6 months at the standard $50 a day recompence from the state for the inconvenience. $250 a week…
Not sure how happy I am with that.
Fortunately I think I can just work my day job after hours / weekends and not take too massive of a hit financially.
And if I am chosen for this shindig, I will not be able to talk about it. So – yeah. Fun stuff…