End of Trial & Jury Duty- 10/28/09

Wednesday. So I am back in court this time at 9am (thank you Jesus)!

So I arrive at court and I already know my decision for the case. Guilty. I go into the jurors’ room and two more of the jurors are already inside and someone at the court house was kind enough to bring in donuts. Thanks, even though I didn’t eat any. As we sit around and wait for the others to arrive I am starting to feel kind of bad for being some what responsible for punishing a man who is struggling with an obvious addiction, but someone has to do it before someone dies, right? This makes me also realize that we are all created differently, and all have different callings from Heaven, and there is a reason why. I then began to ask God for peace and sure enough it is granted. He began to tell me that we still have to obey the law and when we don’t we have to pay the price, and that I was doing the right thing. It’s amazing to me how God puts certain people in certain places and just the right time.

So after everyone arrives the bailiff takes us back into the court room where two attorneys’, judge, and defendant are. (BTW I can not remember the name of the state attorney for the life of me, but he looked just like Christopher Rives in the older Superman movies and he had piercing baby blue eyes, so I kept thinking about Superman and hearing the theme song playing in my head. Haha random I know…) And then we hearing the closing statements. After this we all go into the juror’s room to deliberate. Once we got inside I wasn’t too surprised to see that all of us but one other was on the same page. After talking to this person we were able to have her change her vote. She was kind of 50/50 about it anyway so it wasn’t too hard. After this we notified them we were ready and then we entered back into the room. That’s when it got a little hard again. I just didn’t want to see the man’s face when they said Guilty, so I didn’t look. I don’t think he was surprised though.

So after the trial the attorney’s and judge went into the jurors’ room with us and said we made the right choice because they weren’t allowed to say it at the time but this wasn’t his first DWI, and they are more than convinced that he was intoxicated. So this also made me feel that much better. I thought it was kind of cool that they came in after wards and sat around eating donuts with us and talked about the case and answered any questions we had. I definitely enjoyed the experience and wouldn’t mind doing it again…well as long as the case is somewhere along those lines and not something that would make me cry or totally freak out.

After we were done in there I went back to work and to the normally grind. Sad I know. Work was nothing knew just playing catch up since I hadn’t been in since last Friday. Left at 4:30 and went home to get my babies. Since my week had been busy and crazy natural when I got to their after school provider I came to realize that it was the night of the Fall Festival, so I had to run home and get them ready for this. We went back up there at 7pm for food and games and won a cake on the cake walk. Oh and it was cherry cheesecake my absolute fav! Got back in around 8:30pm, got the kids in the shower and into bed. After that I stayed up talking to my good friend Paige (who is going through some new life experiences) and checked my email(s) since it had been forever. Upon that I discovered that the cell phone I have been wanting was on sale, so I went ahead and ordered it. Yeah! Then I went to bed around 11pm again.