Corpse Run 553: Starring
LIVESTREAM UPDATE:
Just a reminder, I will be away for a work meeting Saturday morning so there won’t be a stream Friday night.
I’ll try to make up for it with some extra Twitch streaming!
END LIVESTREAM UPDATE!
So I’m back from jury duty just in time to make a comic, that’s fortunate! We were asked to stay off social media/etc during our time there, and I wasn’t sure if posting Kat’s Korners would be ok.
My apologies for not posting anything while serving on JD.
I can’t really say anything about courtroom stuff, but what I can say is that they told us there would be coffee provided to all jurors in the big waiting area.
There was coffee…
…for like fifteen minutes.
After they ran out (which was bound to happen considering there were like 300 of us waiting for our names to be called) they never refilled the coffee station.
No coffee.
Waiting for hours.
Booooooooooooooooo.
Generally with jury duty, if they want you off social media they mean posting about the case you may/may not be on, and avoiding reading any outside info regarding it as well. Posting unrelated things to your personal site is cool (unless the judge says otherwise; what the judge says [if in an official capacity] if pretty much law [unless it directly goes against another law without good reason])
This is from 6 years working a courthouse & seeing jurors deal with a whole range of cases: from little stuff that shouldn’t have gone to a jury trial (you were drunk, these dozen witnesses saw you, here’s video of you downing a bottle of tequila) to multiple defendant murder trials (that one was a mess). Basic rule: Not in court? Don’t talk about it.
Also, free coffee? Our court only gave free stuff to people after they were chosen, and over the years that dropped off too (used to be snacks/drinks in deliberation/breaks and $15 for lunch, last I saw it was a whole lot of nothing)
So did you actually serve on a jury, or did they end up letting you go?
I’m pretty sure in that case you’re allowed to start shaking people until they refill it. Trust me, I’ve done jury duty twice…