Had jury duty today

Had it 4 times already, 2 times I sat in the jury room for 8 hours reading a book (some bastard ripped the last chapter out!) sent home. 3rd time I somehow got to go home after 2 hours and be on "30 minute phone stand by" for the rest of the week. Hell yeah, union paid week off! 4th time I was on the jury as a sitting alternate but the last day I was 'in' as someone was sick. 2 day trial, bored to tears. 30 minutes deliberating, guilty as hell. I guess the law says you can't push your wife down a flight of stairs.....? We actually had 3 wafflers on the jury who were going to vote not guilty, but our forman was a whip: "listen, you cannot interpret the law as a jury member, you must take the proof as delivered and make a conclusion based on law." So we deliberated for another 10 minutes and hung him.