I have had an opportunity to serve on a jury duty twice, giving me a lot of experience in the process. Before a person is called to serve in a jury duty, they receive a letter that informs them on the period that they must attend the jury duty. The time to serve ranges from a week or even longer if necessary. If the dates of the jury duty are not conversant with your schedule, a person is allowed to change them after they attend the first day (Aronson, et al., 2012).
After the day arrives, a person is passed through a metal detector and the bags x- rayed, and then signing in. The exciting moment is the interaction with other jurors, mingling with them as one waits for their group to be called. After being called into the court, one waits for their turn to speak to the judge who asks a few questions not listed in the form. Lawyers are given some yea's and nay’s and can remove any juror for any reason. Our group of 70 jurors was reduced to about 11 jurors for some minor and variant reasons. The selected jurors are then given a date on when they should attend the trial. The entire trial process it took an entire week, and it was a very exciting and a very intricate process. The beautiful thing about an inquest is that you can/could question the witnesses also. The experience was very positive on the whole, and it helped me to learn a lot as a juror.
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Comparison of my experience with what I learned is that when the jurors are passing a sentence, they did not look at the crime committed rather they looked at the physical attractiveness of the defendant. Physical attractiveness manipulation was successful as most of the ratings were not affected by the nature of the crime committed (Sigall, 1975).
References
Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Akert, R. M. (2012). Social Psychology (8th ed.). VitalSource
Bookshelf Online. Retrieved from https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9780205974832/
Sigall, H., Ostrove, N. (1975). Beautiful but Dangerous: Effects of Offender Attractiveness and
Nature of the Crime on Juridic Judgment. Journal of Personality Social Psychology, 31(3), 410–414. Retrieved from http://vlib.excelsior.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=truedb=sihAN=16644405site=eds-livescope=site
