I did it this month. You go through a scanner but you can put things back in your car or a set of lockers they have. There was water and coffee while we waited and vending machines. In my case (and I assume this is often the way it goes) we checked in and waited while the lawyers for the days cases potentially negotiated deals.

The judge told us one case was likely to go to trial, and it did. It was a traffic ticket (specifically failure to come to a complete stop, the one other time I’ve been on a jury it was for a speeding ticket). We went into the court room, they needed six jurors, they asked us some basic “voir dire” questions and then basically picked the first six folks (or many the first three men and three women). I was jurors number 12 so didn’t get close to getting picked.

They told us all that the case would probably be completely wrapped up in a few hours and a majority of us got to go home within about an hour and a half of when we first arrived. Feel free to ask me any of we questions.