Jury Duty

Monday I turn up for jury duty.

I have to say it is with mixed emotions that I am doing this.  Not because I don't want to do my civic duty, but because of what I may have to see, listen to and in some odd way relive.

The thought of a good old fashioned white collar crime seems ok to me, fraud, embezzlement or even unfair dismissal.

The thing that plays on my mind is the idea of a criminal case, rape or murder.  Could I sit and listen to all those facts and not be affected, or is that the whole idea, I am to be affected because it is only in that do I become a peer that is able to, impartially view and decide someones fate? 

Maybe I am really just over thinking this and that the fate of a person is really in the hands of the judge and that the jury is really just deciding guilty or innocent and the sentence is handed down by the judge and that to think too much about what the final sentence may be is not the job of the jury and will actually hamper the decision process.

I am looking forward to watching our legal system work, I am more than a little sceptical of justice every really being served.

When it really comes down to it all, how bad a case can I possibly be picked on, when it is only a two week case.