Jury Service - Day Four

Today started promisingly as my name was called fairly early on but nothing else happened. Luckily I was sat with a good group of ladies some of whom I'd met earlier on the week. Our topics of conversation were wide and varied. One lady was a hospital Matron and it was enlightening to hear some of her stories. Another lady was the wife of an undertaker so we spent a good half to three-quarters of an hour on funerals which was more entertaining than it sounds!

We finally found out that case wasn't going to be heard today but I was called again for a different case at about 2:45.

We went to a different part of the court building and I was again selected to be part of the Jury. We were advised that it would be a fairly short case so that sounds promising. Different Judge, Prosecuting and Defending counsel so that was interesting to compare the differences to the previous case I was on.

We had a very stern usher. The others that we had seen and had contact with had been serious when needed but also friendly and chatty. This particular usher seemed to view us jurers as unpredictable, chaotic elements in the controlled procedural world of trials. That was my impression anyway - I'm sure they were very nice ordinarily.

We heard all the witnesses and all the evidence was presented. We have to go back for 11:00am tomorrow morning to hear final closing arguments and the Judge's summing up.

Court adjourned.