I've never served on a jury. Have you?

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17. yes, early 2017, LA criminal case (started at the Airport Courthouse, was sent to Santa Monica)

I was 20 years old. It was a drug case, defendants were arrested in a bar, during a sting operation. During voir dire I answered truthfully (I had a predisposition of mistrust of police setting up people, and was well aware of systemic corruption of the LAPD and LA County Sherriff departments). I thought that, my age, my British accent, lack of time living in the US, etc would assure that I was removed (not that I was trying to get removed). To my great surprise, I was selected, and to my greater surprise, I was chosen as the bloody jury foreperson lolol.

The trial ended 2 days later in a mistrial when a copper repeatedly violated the judge's admonitions to not talk about evidence that had been excluded. The judge was REALLY angry when he cleared us out to the jury room. He was much calmer when we came back and he dismissed us. No clue if they re-tried the defendants. The entire experience was very interesting.