I was called for jury duty yesterday--consternation ensued

[Lee-Lee]

16. I'm not impressed

You found a way to get out of jury duty and feel good about yourself.

You should have sat through selection and let both sides ask you about your views, and been honest. If you didn't get picked then, it would be because you would have said the same things and the rest of the pool still heard it.

But you may very well have been picked, and would have sat on the jury where instead of a lecture about what should have been done you would have been on the jury to make sure it was done.

You took the easy way out. It's nothing to say the jury should rule in a certain way with intent to get yourself out of jury duty. If you really wanted to make a difference you would have sat there and made every attempt to be on that jury (without perjuring yourself of course) because on the jury instead of a pointless lecture about how the case should be ruled you would have been able to make that actually happen as a part of the jury.