this may be a pearoast but what the heck!
I was a juror in a high court murder trial.

One of my managerial colleagues asked me about the jury selection process.

Now the trial itself concerned the death of some abusive knut at the hands of his slightly simple and long suffering girl friend. After weeks and weeks or terror and direct violence, it all came to head in her kitchen when he went for her whilst she was holding a bread knife. in the ensuing fight he was stabbed once, clean through the heart, he bled out like a stuck pig.

So she asked how poeple got picked

I said that each QC got to turn down one juror, and initially the defense QC turned down the first bloke picked.

She asked why did I think that was relevant

I said "well if you get attacked on your doorstep by some nutter with a hammer, you'd want your lawyer to increase the chances of some female solidarity" and with that she looked at me horrified and, with no exaggeration, never spoke to me again.

Turned out she had been subjected to exactly that some time in the recent past.

Talk about buzz kill!
( Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Sat 14 May 2011, 8:21, Reply)