In my weeks of jury duty, I saw a total of 20-30 people take the stand and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. But only a few actually did that in my opinion. The rest made me wonder just what happens when someone lies in that seat. Each plaintiff denied going to websites or researching water cleaning mechanisms for the last year or two up till the trial started while they were very diligent about that beforehand. So if they were telling the truth, they were not acting in a way to mitigate the problem (which was part of our judge’s instructions – you can’t just become adversarial, you have to keep moving in a reasonable manner to solve the problem). And if they were not telling the truth, then what? I suppose they’ll only pay the price if the lie is big enough to ruffle someone else hard enough to want to come after them. Gawd, sometimes I wonder just how naïve I can be.