jury duty

I have been called three times. The first time I sat on three juries. One case involved a man sueing his realestate agent because the county wouldn't let him run his plumbing supply busness from his property. Even though the zoning was right; his driveway was to narrow. He ended up buying ten feet of his neighbors property to comply. He wanted a full refund from the realtor. He lost. He himself had double checked everything with the county directly so he could not claim he had been mislead. The second case was an armed robbery of a local Taco Bell. It took all of ten minutes to settle that one. It's kind of hard to convict someone when the prosecutions key witness says "that is not the guy" and their secondary witness left the scene then came back. The final case involved a will. It was hand written in pencil. It had something erased from it. We were supposed to determine if the will was valid. This case took a little longer. We had one of "those" jurors with us. He argued everything. We argued over whether a bank vice president, one of the wills witnesses, would sign a will written in pencil. We argued, the important issue, if the beenficiary - who had the will in their posestion - could have made the erasure to their benefit. We argued the mental ability of the deceased. All it took was some common scence which this one juror didn't have to much of. Eventually we decided the will was invalid no matter who made the erasuers they invalidated the will. Both other times I have been called, I have not been chosen for a jury. I don't think they wanted a federal employee on the panel. Although sitting on a federal jury would have been interesting I was just as glad to be off.