jury duty anticlimax

[psocoptera]

Finally served my (angsted-about, postponed) jury duty. Turned out the people of Massachusetts didn't want any juries this morning, having decided to plead guilty, settle their lawsuits, have their cases dismissed, or in one case flee from the law, making the problem larger but also clearly someone else's. So I never saw a courtroom. We did get to meet a judge who assured us that we had still done something useful, and indeed, I suppose people would not have been so eager to avoid a jury if there wasn't a potential jury lurking around to avoid.