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I hope the jury are all served sub sandwiches for lunch each day of this trail.
With extra onions and mustard
A salt and buttery with a weapon for mass consumption.
Their were buying yellow cake!
They don't serve food to juries. If you're lucky, they give you enough to offset the parking costs.
Yeah, off topic, but it really seems like the court system has adapted over time to disincentivize the lower class from serving on juries.
But you can’t opt out, you legally must serve.
I was called up for jury service a few years ago. I was actually really excited to get someone off, but I wasn't even put into a pool.
True, but there are ways to get out pretty easily.
My personal favorite is "the defendant didn't show up". It's worked for me twice now.
Just say you hate cops, which is probably true anyway.
The jurors in the FTX case got pizza ordered for them when they were doing final debate.
Well that's not the norm
I think they said they'd probably be able to wrap it up that night if they got dinner and the judge was like "hell yeah order up".