I've done it - tell him to take a good book, there's a lot of waiting around! It very much depends on the case you get. I ended up listening to a case about wrongful imprisonment, which was fascinating, and turned out to be the last in a linked series of three trials, so the judge asked us if we would like to come back in and listen to the summing up and sentencing, which we all said yes to and then had to be escorted out of the judges' entrance at the back of the court so we didn't bump into any angry relatives afterwards. One of the other trials running at the time was a very complex fraud case and the jurors ended up serving for nearly four months.
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