Reply To: Jury duty

CTLAWYER: How do judges not automatically favor someone with their same last name?

Maybe not everyone gets all excited when someone else shares a last name. Some last names are also more common than others.

Maybe that’s why I am not a judge; I would want to favor anyone with the same last name as mine. Even if this person was guilty, maybe I would tell the prison officials to offer the person an extra sandwich or something for Shabbos.