Rob CarlsonUS folks only, out of curiosity, how many times have you served on a jury - not just called but actually sat through a trial?
ETA: Also feel free to reply with your JD stories.
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Josh 
@vees a fun thing about living in Baltimore is that we have a massive problem with people simply not showing up to jury duty. So if you actually show up, there’s a very good chance you’ll end up sitting on a jury. And then get called every year.
@josh0 The county did not have that a showing up problem but was the place where every civil defendant and insurance company WANTED their suit heard if it was all possible to avoid large settlements the city jurors regularly gave to injured parties. With the county pool you had at least a few "bootstrap conservatives" from north of Cockeysville.
@vees serving on juries in the city has definitely been an interesting experience. Literally only once have I encountered a fellow juror who seemed even remotely inclined to take the prosecution’s word at face value (in a case that was utterly lacking in any sort of forensics; had they simply fingerprinted the key piece of evidence, I am confident we would have returned a guilty verdict, but they instead basically just assumed they would get a conviction of a black man on felony gun possession charges without having to do any real work).
@josh0 Harder to argue jurisdiction on a criminal case but I'm sure county criminal defendants also would have preferred to be heard in the city for the same reason.