Jury Duty and prosecutors

I did jury duty once.

Everyone it's come up with seems to have basically the exact same mentality: "only idiots get stuck with jury duty," IOW: if you're smart, you'll get out of it.

I did jury duty once. This is how it went:

Dude1 and Dude2 have known each other for quite some time and got into a fight and Dude1 ended up needing an ambulance. When asked why by 911, his girlfriend said that there was a fight. Because of this, the police were required to come. Because they were required to come, they were required to take Dude2 and they were required to file a report. Because they were required to file a report, it went to the prosecutor who was required to try to get some money for the county for making use of the police (who were required to be called). Because the prosecutor was involved, Dude1 thought he could make a buck suing Dude2.

That's it. Petty bullshit. Neither Dude1 nor Dude2 would have been in court if the prosecutor hadn't been required to at least ask Dude1 to be a witness for her case which wasn't really even about Dude1, it was about getting back some bucks for Dude2's police-involvement (which no one involved even asked for).

And I didn't even mention the pettiness the prosecutor showed in assuming we, the jury, wouldn't uphold *THE LAW* ("innocent until proven guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt") because "he seemed like a shady character who would do something like that" (actually, undoubtedly-so. Then again the prosecutor seemed to be just downright evil and good at hiding it behind legalese and professionalism).

It's a good thing all the smart folks avoid jury duty so all the dumb-folks can put each other away for petty personal-issues on a hunch... until there's not enough dumbfolks to be put away and they start putting away smartfolks for being unpatriotic.

And now my mom wants to work for the prosecutor "to give back to the community," because she's having a petty bickering-match with her boss.

I'm sure there are cases that are positive... hopefully most. Hopefully some against our country's own law-breaking. I just need to keep telling myself that, because mom's trying to work fo the po-po now.