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Old Oct 29, 2014, 09:01 AM
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I'm another person who would like being on a jury, but I never will be. My father was a cop, my sister is now a cop, and I used to work for a defense attorney.

When I first started working for the attorney, I was concerned about dealing with triggers. The first case I worked on for him bore an eerie resemblance to my own trauma, so much so that the therapist I was seeing then thought I was joking. But I managed it okay, surprisingly.

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Old Oct 29, 2014, 09:15 AM
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I'm not sure why I don't think I'd be triggered by the content, I just feel confident I'd intellectualise it all - which is probably what you'd want from a juror. I haven't been through the criminal court system in any form though, and can definitely understand if someone had been a victim/witness in a case that that be retraumatising, along with the content of the trial for others.
I have that confident feeling as well and also have never been through the criminal court system.
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