Sunday, November 13, 2005

The "Rob goes to Court" game

Ok, at 8:00am central standard time I am summoned to serve, at the Frank Crowley Courts Building which is near Lew Sterrit Justice Center (County Jail), as a pettit juror. I love jury duty like Tom DeLay loves Earle.

Since I turned 18 I have had jury duty 7 times: 4 Civil, 1 Federal and 2 Criminal.

Of those, I have been seated as a juror in 1 civil and 1 criminal trial.

So, here is the game I came up with that will make my jury duty a community project. Each person is allowed to comment their response to my series of questions. The answers must be in before the 5:00pm timestamp to count. The person who gets the most answers right wins the right to receive 2 packs of Survival Spice on my dime. Just make sure you leave a valid email, because that is how I'm going to get ahold of you.

So with the information above, here are you questions:

For 5 points each: the yes or no category
  1. Will I be late?
  2. Will they start late?
  3. Will anyone be removed by the police because they had a warrant they forgot about?
  4. Will a stranger try to talk to me as I try to read?
  5. Will I have to wear any type of name tag?
  6. Will I set off the metal detector?
  7. Will parking cost more than the per diem given by the state?
  8. Will anyone show up in shorts even though it plainly says on the summons to not wear shorts?
  9. Will I get dismissed before I ever make a jury pool?
  10. Will I drink any of the crappy government coffee?
For 10 points the over/under?
  1. Will my juror number be over or under 225?
  2. Will there be over or under 5 decent looking girls in the general jury room?
  3. Will there be over or under 3 people that ask me what time it is?
  4. Will I finish over or under 100 pages of my book before my number is called?
  5. Will I get paged or called by work over or under 3 times?
Finally, the blind guesses for 20 points each?
  1. What genre of book am I reading?
  2. What type of shoes will I wear?
  3. If I'm picked to go into a jury pool, what will the charge be?
  4. What floor will my jury be on, if I am assigned one?
  5. Will I have to talk during the voir dire sections of jury selection, if seated?
For the final tie breaker, in case of a tie, what is the amount of money I will spend on lunch, for which I'm sure that I wish I had some Survival Spice?

The only thing I would like to add is: tell your buddies and friends to get their entries in. If I get picked, out of respect for the system, I won't discuss the case or give any points out until the trial is done, but I will extend the deadline until the final day of my jury duty. So if we do have a day two, you may want to adjust your answers.

Jury duty isn't fun for me but I feel compelled to not try to get out of it and I'll be posting light until I'm done, but hopefully we can have some fun with the process and make it spicy.