Rush to Judgment

Don't be to hard on yourself. Almost every person picked for jury duty don't want to be there and fabricate a story. But the lawyers and judge should have asked you for proof. As I have found out from being on a jury seledtion, in Georgia, you must prove that you can not be on the jury.

May God have mercy on your & his & his wifes souls.

I will and all ready done, said a prayer in memory and passing under the grace of pressure, and ask God to take them into his loving brace of solitude. Amen Thank You Jesus and those that he know's.

The ease in which you made your reply really was not a fabrication. You had valid reasons for not wanting to sit on a jury to hear a case about alcohol. You may not have wanted to go on jury duty originally, but after hearing the charges there was no doubt that you could not be fair and impartial. You did the right thing by backing out.
Now, knowing that the case may have been a sad mistake on your first impression...could you really say that you would not be impartial knowing that alcohol could have been a factor? Let's say for the sake of argument that this man was not a heavy drinker.
Alcohol affects non-drinkers higher than heavy drinkers..i.e, they get tipsy faster. Could you still be impartial or would you reason that the man driving used poor judgement and should be charged with vehicular homicide as his wife suffered the consequences of his actions? You have to also think about whether or not the act of driving a motorcycle (a hazardous, risky business) was a factor in the accident.

I can hear and understand the pain you describe as a result of this situation. I can also hear myself asking the same question you did at the end of your column..."How many times do you [I] have to learn this lesson?" What I have learned is that, in both cases, whenever I sense such disturnbances in me, whether or not there is anything the other party did or didn't do to me that helped generate the disturbance, that there is something I need to review about myself. In a way, its like me asking myself, "Who am I really angry/sad/afraid of/at here in this situation? I have learned that this form of introspection helps me learn valuable life lessons in nearly all circumstances. Thanks for your honesty and open frankness in what you shared with all of us.

That was a fabulous article, teaching us just what you wanted us to learn. I will definatly not pass judgement so quickly from now on. Thank you.