Jury Duty: The right to a jury trial matters to everyone
District Court Judge Molly Owen
If you have seen the television show, “Jury Duty,” on Amazon Prime that came out last year, you will know that the show follows members of a jury who are tasked to decide a workplace dispute. The lawsuit and trial are fake. Everyone involved in the trial is an actor other than one member of the jury, Ronald, who believes he is serving on a real jury.
The show is funny and heartwarming. It also gives some good insight into the process of conducting a trial in front of a jury.
In the first episode, members of the community show up to the courthouse and go through the jury selection process. The judge asks whether any of the potential jurors cannot serve on the jury, and there are some whose excuses do not pass muster with the judge. For example, one potential juror says that she cannot serve on the jury because “it’s just not [her] thing.”
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