Personal Narrative: An Interview With My Uncle Todd

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After interviewing my Uncle Todd, I have seen what it is like to serve on jury duty from a first hand experience. It seems like a very cool and unique process that I think we are lucky to be apart of. When asking him how he felt when he received the letter in the mail calling upon him to receive jury duty he said, “I was happy to just get a day off work, but I still wondered if there was a way that I could get out of this.” As most people probably feel, my Uncle Todd was not too excited about having to serve, but was at least happy to get a day off work. He told me that the questions he was asked were what you think they would ask you. Questions he got asked ranged from: Have you served on a jury before? Is there anything that would prevent

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