I Got Called For Jury Duty

Only Once........
[b]I have been a registered voter for decades, but have only been called for jury duty one time. It was four years ago, the week before I started my present job. I had been a full time housewife and mother for fifteen years, not out in the public. I knew that the area I lived in was mostly conservative , but had no idea just how much people let that fact color their judgement. [/b]
[b]The case was about a weapon seizure. The police has entered a property they had been watching, though no one was at the house. Inside , they had found multiple weapons. The property was legally uninhabited, but they had found some papers with the defendant's name on them. There was no lease or deed, no utility bills, no other sign of his inhabiting the premisis. I was an alternate..I listened to the same "proof" the other jurors did. I thought that there was an extreme lack of proof. The jury found him guilty in less than 15 minutes. I could not believe it. I would so have held that jury up, had I been in on the actual diliberations. It was then that I realized just how judgemental most of the people around here are.[/b]