Comments on: Jury Selection: Simple Rule 11: The Playing Doctor Rule http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/09/jury-selection-simple-rule-11-the-playing-doctor-rule.html the tao of criminal defense trial lawyering Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:20:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: M. Nightingale http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/09/jury-selection-simple-rule-11-the-playing-doctor-rule.html/comment-page-1#comment-10281 M. Nightingale Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:15:22 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/09/jury-selection-simple-rule-11-the-playing-doctor-rule.html#comment-10281 Returning to college, I'm taking a mandated Personal Development class. One of the class requirements is keeping a journal of all of the introspection we’re supposed to be doing. The professor reads the journal and expects us to post uncomfortable truths about ourselves to the class forum, but she never shares anything about herself, preferring to remain aloof, acting the guru, and occasionally posting the equivalent of "Rah rah, you grow [emotionally] girl!" What you wrote here about jury selection struck home. Why should I share personal information and views and truths and insecurities with my professor? I have no reason to trust her, and I'm in a group of strangers with whom I would never associate with willingly. So I write what I think will get me a good grade, what I think the professor wants to read, and keep intimate thoughts to myself. I did the same thing last time I had jury duty, for similar reasons. Returning to college, I’m taking a mandated Personal Development class. One of the class requirements is keeping a journal of all of the introspection we’re supposed to be doing. The professor reads the journal and expects us to post uncomfortable truths about ourselves to the class forum, but she never shares anything about herself, preferring to remain aloof, acting the guru, and occasionally posting the equivalent of “Rah rah, you grow [emotionally] girl!”

What you wrote here about jury selection struck home. Why should I share personal information and views and truths and insecurities with my professor? I have no reason to trust her, and I’m in a group of strangers with whom I would never associate with willingly.

So I write what I think will get me a good grade, what I think the professor wants to read, and keep intimate thoughts to myself.

I did the same thing last time I had jury duty, for similar reasons.

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