Robert P. Taylor's JuryDuty: reflections on a trial 

Jury Pool -- Orientation and Preliminaries

Above are thumbnails of two representatives of the court system and below are five of the N Y City citizens who appeared in response to a jury duty summons. By 9:00 am, the prospective jurors room on the 15th Floor at 100 Center Street was packed. The court clerk (upper left) supervised all the prospective jurors, including the five below, and organized their orientation. After a film and an extensive set of explanatory comments, some by the clerk, some by an official who introduced himself as Judge Roberts (upper right), we were left on our own to await panelling. Most people read or talked. Finally, around 12:00 noon, the first panel of jurors, me among them, was called out to a courtroom, down on the 11th floor. It was the last I saw of this 15th floor jurors' room and of its occupants, because I subsequently was chosen as a juror for that trial and spent the rest of my 1997 duty elsewhere, in that trial's courtroom.

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