Take Arthur to his second Grand Jury Select/Carlos Pueblo

 Take Arthur to his second Grand Jury Select/Carlos Pueblo

Arthur's second Grand Jury Select day was yesterday. He is not good at driving in Houston normal traffic on the freeway and I love him so much; therefore, I don't mind to drive him any where other than his to and from work. This Grand Jury Select is a civic duty like other kinds of jury duty. If it is selected, you must serve at the court room Tuesday and Friday, three hours a day, for three months. We get it all figure out how to manage it. He will take the bus to downtown court house and we shall take him to and from the bus stop. It is a hassle indeed yet we will deal with it.

I brought a note book of language classes to read while I was waiting inside the Astro Arena assembly hall. Last time, I went directly to see my eyes doctor for annual examination and came back to take him. This time, I could see the activity inside the assembly hall, all the court people, attorneys, and people called. He guessed about 40 finalist and 12 will be picked with additional 4 as the reserve. The 12 selected will be escorted to downtown court house immediately for duty. I was waiting and waiting, guessing and guessing, and asking and asking. First, he came out to line up with about 40 of them and then herded together to another place on the back. I was still waiting and waiting. I saw two more groups with about 65 each line up and herded away.

Finally after one and half hours, I saw people from that back direction coming out for rest room break and even exit directly. I saw him out of the rest room and went out side without notice of my present. I asked a lady court police what was going on. She told me none had been picked yet. Another staff assured me that she saw Arthur went out side. He was out side and attempted to call me for the ride home. The lady judge asked for the volunteers to fill up the Grand Jury and finally made it. The rest were excused.

I was so happy that he didn't volunteer and got this issue solved. I don't need to worry about any of the transportation problem occurred in the next three months. I am still very occupied with my daily life.

The prosecutor asks for the Grand Jury assembled in order to establish a criminal case to be prosecuted, then the case go to trail. Before the trail, there will be another jury be selected from both sides, the prosecutor and the defense attorney. I was told if your numbers was higher than 20, most likely you were not going to be picked up as a jury. It is very interesting system. This system is admired all over the world, Taiwanese love to change their court system to be like this kind.