@Mentsch1
Just a quick mention of what happened to me today (apropos of my last post).
Today I had jury duty at the local Superior Court. In CT, attorneys are not exempt and I am called every three years for the obligatory one day service, then if not chosen for a jury and free for the next 3 years.
I was sent as part of a group of 40 to be interviewed for selection to serve on a murder trial.
After discussing the case, the judge called us into the courtroom one by one for questioning (Voir Dire). Most prospective jurors were questioned for about 3 minutes. I was on the stand for over half an hour. The judge wanted me to serve, the prosecutor wanted me to serve, the defense attorney was forced to use a peremptory challenge to get rid of me.
As the judge thanked me for my time and dismissed me from jury service, he informed me that I could not leaver the courthouse, but had been assigned to represent an indigent minor child whose parents were in the family division in the final stages of a divorce.
So, I spent the entire afternoon providing free legal counsel…with the state determining I should work at a rate of ZERO dollars per hour.
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