NAMES IN THE NEWS : Governor Reports for Jury Duty
A judge lauded Gov. Rose Mofford as Arizona’s “No. 1 public citizen,” but said that didn’t mean she was eligible for jury duty.
“I was summoned and I felt it was my duty to respond,” said the governor, who took a fifth row seat Thursday in Maricopa County Superior Court as a possible juror in a drug case.
The court’s presiding judge, B. Michael Dann, made a special trip to the jury room to greet her. Dann thanked Mofford for coming forward, but said she couldn’t serve because of conflict of interest.
As governor Mofford can dole out pardons and shorten the sentences of criminals.
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