I’m sitting here at the Torrance courthouse on jury duty.
Jury duty is always inconvenient to me, but going to prison and losing your liberty, or worse yet your life as a result of a death penalty case, is even more inconvenient. If people use excuses to get out of jury duty, they dishonor those who died for the rights of all people to serve on juries to insure that people get fair trials.
Many people know that Viola Liuzzo, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, amongst others, died for the right of people to vote. They also died for the right of everybody to serve on juries.
I am personally looking forward to my first jury duty.