One last thing
Twitter has some on-the-spot musings about today's exercise in remaining seated.
Really. That guy had his laptop and was playing some fighting game! He was on the second panel, whose case stuck, so he had to actually go to court after lunch.
And the juror assembly room had all the hallmarks of an old large public area: too much fluorescent lighting, conduits on the walls' surfaces (the building used to not have electricity in there, I guess), many ceiling fans in various states of "on" ... and that TV tuned to the Exact Wrong Channel when lunchtime was in effect.
Really. That guy had his laptop and was playing some fighting game! He was on the second panel, whose case stuck, so he had to actually go to court after lunch.
And the juror assembly room had all the hallmarks of an old large public area: too much fluorescent lighting, conduits on the walls' surfaces (the building used to not have electricity in there, I guess), many ceiling fans in various states of "on" ... and that TV tuned to the Exact Wrong Channel when lunchtime was in effect.