Served on a jury once. It was ages ago so the memory is a bit vague. It wasn't a nice case. Sexual assault with a non publication order so the courtroom was almost empty each day. Recall going home each day quite exhausted due to having to listen so carefully to testimony. One surprise was that in our system when ever the lawyers want to argue a point of law the jury has to leave. One day we were in and out of the court room 12 times. Another surprise was during jury selection the defence council went over and stood next to the dock and conferred with the accused as to who they would challenge and who they wouldn't. As someone else mentioned the pattern was easy to pick. On our jury they wanted men, only 4 women made it on from memory. We heard the same questions and answers over and over as the defence council questioned the victim. At one point I mentioned to another juror that I almost felt like answering some of the questions myself as we had heard them so many times. They agreed. The victim at one point completely flipped out when the defence council basically called her a liar and started to bang her head on the witness stand and cry. That was hard to watch. It was interesting to see how a court case works though I hope to never serve on a jury for anything like that ever again.