Today I had jury duty summons. Great experience. My questioning by the judge in the screening process led to rather heated debate, and at the end came down to him pointing out that I needed to leave my knowledge at the door and allow the expert to be the sole purveyor of interpretation of the data from the breathalizer.
(Judge's words:) "We have to all have reasonable trust in the expert when he tells us results from the tool... err... uhh... uhh... what's the word I'm looking for? Umm..." to which after several seconds I just jumped in and stated my last word in the courtroom, finishing his sentence, "instrument?"
I was promptly thanked and excluded from the jury by the prosecutors.
