Jury duty is a wonderful thing

I got selected to serve on a criminal trial in Texas. The system itself seemed pretty fair, but some of my fellow jurors were just pitiful. Couldn't follow the judges instructions not to consider/discuss certain testimony and couldn't be bothered to read the few pages of instructions we were given before beginning to decide a person's fate for up to life in prison. They literally were asking each other questions that would have been answered by reading the printed instructions. After I convinced them to read the instructions, we spent a good bit of time discussing what certain sentences meant because a few of them had some reading comprehension issues. Never mind the fact that how one interpreted one sentence would be the difference between a conviction on assault or aggravated assault.

It scares me to death knowing people like that end up on juries.