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Most people treat a summons for Jury Duty with trepidation and annoyance along with a healthy dose of resignation, all the while scheming about the best approach to avoid the interruption in their regular routines. Service on a Jury, whether in a criminal or civil court, can be an extremely rewarding and life-changing experience. Juries are chosen from a cross-section of the citizens in a particular community so as to make sure there are not extreme prejudices that would prove to penalize the parties appearing before the court of law. Without these diverse and random pools the decision making could be skewed in ways that reflected the patterned makeup of the pools of potential jurors. Many of the cases that come before juries prove to be interesting and jurors often report that they had a sense of making a difference when it came to determining the responsibility of the parties for whatever the case was that needed decision making. The next time you receive a summons for Jury Duty approach it with the excitement you would bring to a new adventure. After all, you’d want people just like you on the jury if it was your fate the jurors were deciding.

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