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...room and watch television. The Constitution guarantees citizens an impartial jury of their peers, and while it’s a little troubling to learn that our peers find Regis Philbin really funny (something the Framers can’t have anticipated), and disappointing to learn just how far district court is removed from celluloid courtroom drama, it is also reassuring to learn that the justice system requires us to spend a morning in a narrow room stocked with old magazines more frequently than it requires us to be moral giants...
...odds with each other: for altruists, “Jury Duty: You Make the Difference,” and, for the self-interested, “Jury Service...It’s For You.” I also learned that I had been assigned to jury duty in district court in my home county in October...
While I resented the inconvenience of a bus ride home in the middle of midterms, and was appalled by the 8:30 a.m. check-in time at the district courthouse, I secretly looked forward to fulfilling my civic obligation. My enthusiasm was fueled by a pamphlet, the “Trial Juror’s Handbook,” that explained the importance of jury service. “As a juror, you will have to make difficult judgements [sic] involving all of the human passions—love, hate, greed, anger, etc.,” the Handbook promised...
...when I drove up to the courthouse in a gusting October rain, I was a little disappointed. There weren’t any ionic columns, severe and symbolic, as in the long opening shot of 12 Angry Men. Instead, the district courthouse was a National Guard armory modified for civilian use by the addition of low suspended ceilings and indoor/outdoor carpeting...
Terrorism has hit the Philippines hard in the last couple of weeks?including five bombings that killed 13 and a grenade attack Oct. 17 in Manila's financial district?and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has responded with a show of political testosterone intended to impress her APEC summit partners this week in Los Cabos, Mexico. She backed a controversial plan for a national ID card that will help keep tabs on bad guys. Her government also announced the deployment of 500 "secret marshals," plainclothes cops who will scour the nation looking for hoodlums. Arroyo's crackdown contrasted nicely with...