re: Have you ever been on a jury?

Yep. Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Not guilty.

Called four times, picked twice.

First time was a dispute over driveway damage between developer and cable contractor. Stopped after opening argument. No decision required.

Second time was burglary of a business. No second thoughts. Assistant DA's closing was epic, "imagine Mr. "Jones" bad luck on this night. He had to go to the bathroom real bad that night, pulled into a parking lot where a Home Depot was being built and it wasn't dark enough for him so on his bad knee he walked up the steep embankment to an open field where he just so happened to trip and fall on top of just stolen power tools as a pursuing police arrives". Another mistake by the defense, they called a character witness for a guy with a prior record. The prosecution table wasn't able to sit still when that gift was delivered to them.

I was on a civil case. They ran out of time during the juror interview process, and just decided to roll with who was up there. So, I got stuck on the jury. It was a personal injury case from a car accident. It was one of those sleazy attorneys trying pad their bill. From the beginning you knew they were just trying to cash in, but he drug out the trial for over a week. By then, most of the jury was tired of him and his clients. They got paid a little, but I'm pretty sure that attorney took most of it.
It wasn't a bad experience, but I definitely wanted to be doing something else. The "myth" is if you serve on a jury, you will be called more. I'm finding this true, because I got summoned for Federal Jury duty a year later. My brother served right after the graduated. He gets summoned pretty much every 2 years.

Yes. Murder 2. Guilty. I was the foreman. N.O. Katrina refugee shot a kid on a bike then stood over him and finished the job. US Marshals had to hunt down the two main witnesses and bring them to the trial. Still don't know what a "Ninth ward chain" is, but one of the witness was crying and saying that over and over. After the trial we met with the judge, prosecution and defense. Prosecutor wasn't sure he could get 1st degree so he dropped it down.

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Some kids from marrero fighting over nothing.

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probably because they have to live in marrero

A pimp, self described, stabbed a Marine, in full dress blues, who was walking with his wife in the back.

Guilty 2nd degree murder.

A few years back I was selected for jury duty and even ended up as jury foreman. We heard only one case. This case was a guy charged with going into this tanning bed/video rental place on morning before they opened up, robbing the lady in there at gun point, and then pistol whipping her.

The evidence they had against the guy was the lady picked his picture out of a photo lineup of all the juvenile offenders in the general area. They also had a really grainy store video showing a guy in a red hoodie. You could not see his face, in fact the only part of him you could see is his forearm which was quite big and the gun in his hand.

The problem with the prosecutor's case though is the kid she'd picked out of the photo line-up looked like he weighed all of about 95 lbs and his forearm was about as big around as a #2 pencil. Also, they never found this red hoodie in the video nor did they find the gun either.

And on top of all this the kid had a rock solid alibi that he was nowhere near this area when the crime took place. The defense first brought in his grandmother, who looked like she was about 110 years old and had never missed a day of church in her life who testified that he was at her house eating breakfast that morning. Next they brought in his boss, who just so happened to be a preacher, who testified that he picked him up from his grandmother's house that morning then drove him to a job site that was like 50 miles away. And finally, they brought in the homeowner of the place where they were working that day to testify that he was indeed at his house while this crime took place.

So basically, the only evidence the prosecutor had against this kid is the lady who was robbed picked his picture out of a photo line-up. Needless to say, it took us all of about 30 seconds to reach a not guilty verdict. I walked away from the courthouse that day pretty much terrified at what passed for law enforcement in my county. How this kid's case ever made it to a jury trial in the first place is beyond me. This poor kid had been sitting in jail because he could not raise bail waiting on his trial and this whole time the prosecutor knew there was no way he could be guilty. But that didn't stop them from letting him sit in jail before they tried to send him off to prison for years.

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the victim couldn't identify the defendant as the perp

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Wonder why?

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dementia

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nope. always wanted to though

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I was actually summoned again this past June but the report date was the day we were leaving for vacation. I called the court house and they took me off the list for this go around. I'm pretty sure I'll be getting another summons again in the next year or two. Seems like I get called every few years.