Over the years, I have been called 3 times but was never selected. While it was never convenient, I was glad to be there. Given the importance of a jury trial in this country, I consider it an honor to be part of the process.
On a side note, my Dad was called for jury duty. He put on his suit complete with a bow tie. After they asked his name and address, he was promptly dismissed. When he asked a family friend who was a lawyer about why he was dismissed so quickly, the friend replied that he would have dismissed him as well. Too much of an outlier!
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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