FW: dismissed for cause

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: http://www.cs..edu/~b
 > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:00:04 -0700
 >
 > So we spent all day on voir dire.  I was appalled at the opinions
 > of some of the other potential jurors.  Typical: If someone is paid
 > below minimum wage, they entered into that agreement voluntarily, or
 > they should work hard and go to college and then they'll be paid more.
 > And then there were the ones whose opinions were incoherent, or who
 > insisted on bringing up their own pet issues irrelevant to the case,
 > such as the woman who wants the defendants to go through sensitivity
 > training so the problem won't come up again, and no matter how many
 > times the lawyers and the judges said "all this court can do is award
 > money damages; could you agree to that?" she wouldn't say yes or no,
 > just "but they should have training."
 > 
 > I had an interesting conversation with the lawyer for the employer
 > about my views about capitalism.  She wanted to know if I could
 > "set aside" my political views while hearing the case.  I said,
 > "I would try my best to be open-minded about the case, and if the
 > evidence clearly favors the company I'd vote that way, but I can't
 > stop being who I am!  And I suppose that if the evidence isn't so
 > clear either way I'd probably lean toward the workers."  Finally she
 > asked, "If you were me, would you be comfortable having you on the
 > jury?"  To *that* question I could give an unequivocal answer: no.
 > So I was the second juror excused for cause, and I therefore can't
 > tell you how the rest of the selection process went.
 > 
 > But the most appalling thing happened before the lawyers got started,
 > when the judge asked each of us a set of questions.  One was about
 > my job(s) and those of any present or past spouse and any adult
 > child.  And when I told him that Heath is a pizza delivery person,
 > the judge said "That's an honorable job; you don't have to say it
 > that way."  And I still have no idea what I said or how I said it to
 > attract that comment!  I don't *think* I was sneering or sounding
 > apologetic or anything.  So mostly that's what I was thinking about
 > during the whole rest of the process.