We in the peanut gallery pop in and out as suits our schedule. The Judge,
court staff, and attorneys are compensated at full value for their time. The
jury
members were drafted and have to give, without fail, their poorly
compensated
time to these issues. Issues which were not really in their sphere
of concerns
before selection and which are likely to be the anecdote no one
really wants to
hear
after the trial. Sure, a day off here may mean a
day later down the
road, but the rest of the jurors' lives, the grocery
shopping, relatives' birthdays,
the vacuuming, the colds of spouses, etc., do
not get suspended during the
trial. They completed a phase, give them a
day or two to attend to
personal issues or maybe take a walk in the park or
whatever. They are the
people who are sacrificing the most here: I think a day
or two of normality now
is the best way the court could thank them for their
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