I can't wait to find out what happens when OP finds out they don't pay for lunch ...

So much for innocent until proven guilty.

This ... is ... brilliant.

While I do agree that jury duty parking should be paid for - in the end you'll be paying for it anyway (taxes). It's an issue to take up with policymakers, not with a judge. That's just silly. It's the exact same thing as thinking that the speed limit on a certain road is way under what it should be - and instead of going through the appropriate channels to try and make change, instead your thinking is to argue that in front of a judge when you get your speeding ticket. It makes no sense. The judge isn't going to be so "moved" by your words that he/she is going to take up the cause of change for you that, honestly, you are too lazy to do. If it really means that much to you, try to enact change the way it's suppose to be done. Not by wasting your time, the judge's time, the courts time - all of which, coincidentally, is paid for by you in the end.

I'm gonna guess he just paid and parked in a garage, went to jury duty, and ultimately decided that it wasn't worth it to pursue the free parking.