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• Will this not just annoy the jury - they have made arrangements... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 04:10 PM EDT

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 service.

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