Jury Duty

It may not seem like it but juries are a vital and integral part of our justice system. Without them, every criminal and/or civil decision will look like a potential government decision separate and apart from our citizenry. Juries inject an irreplaceable public element to decision making that is the envy of most every other country on our planet. Thank you to all who serve.

 

My first time on a jury is complete. The anticipated one-day trial took two and in the end we came to two not guilty verdicts fairly quickly and in spite of a video that showed half of the scene.

 

My view of jurors (after 30+ years) is that they try very hard to do what's right based on the judge's instructions and its not as biased as simple people are quick to say.

Do you agree? Or was it prejudged.

 

I dont' think it was prejudged at all, and I think we followed the jury instructions pretty much all the way. We read the definition of credibility and we reviewed all of the witness testimony to see who we believed and why or why not? Then we reviewed the actual incident, not the surrounding fluff. We then took a ballot vote to see where we stood and it was already unanimous. I fully expected the vote to be split at that point.

Definitely not easy to sit through and do all that.

 

Hats off to you and your fellow jurors for doing your duty. Thanks again.

 

And now I'm tapped for jury duty, too.

I've never been chosen to actually serve on one.
My theory is the word "Journalist" on the form I fill out.

 

In the Parkland High shooting trial, a prospective juror tried to get out of it because she has "a sugar daddy" she needs to see every day. The judge doesn't quite know what to make of it:



By the way ... anyone see a female judge that smoking hot before?

 

I got called once in college way back when and started chatting up a lovely young lady. But then my name was called, voire dire started and that was that.
It was a murder trial, serious stuff. But I never got to interview and once you serve a day, you’re good.

 

I was waiting for you to write that the lovely young lady ended up being the murder suspect.

 

She's good looking, but what really impressed me was that her face gave away nothing as she listened to that woman. If you sit in a courtroom all day you are going to hear all sorts of crazy things, but her poker face was stone solid.

 

Law school is a very small subset, and “smoking” in law school class << university.

She is attractive though. Could be “car cute” though because she’s up there and has a robe on.

 

In one of the more ironic situations, I'm scheduled to be on the grand jury tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. Yep, determining whether the prosecutor who sentenced me gets his way with presenting enough evidence to proceed with indictments against my fellow miscreants.

I'm actually looking forward to seeing exactly what evidence he has to present -- both in written and oral testimony -- because I'm going to be looking for anything out of the ordinary (no signed/post-dated search warrants, violations of Fourth Amendment rights, shoddy evidence) to screw with his ass all day long.

He won't know why, either.