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Jury Duty ;+)-

Cool..i just bought a new bag of gourmet popcorn.

I've herd grand jury duty is even better.

Served on it once. Never again.
The stuff about saying you hate black people doesn't work in real life.

Just remember-if they're not guilty, they wouldn't be there

Hopefully your sequestered so you can't post

I think we'd be better off having "full time jurors" than this drill of trying to pick them out from people that have no desire to do this

Why do people have such disdain for jury duty. I consider ourselves lucky to have a system in this country that allows you the opinion of others as opposed to one individual.

went to jury duty for first time last year... Sat in a room of 100+ people for 2 hours, then had a 30 min break. When we came back she said we were all excused.

gynecologist said:

went to jury duty for first time last year... Sat in a room of 100+ people for 2 hours, then had a 30 min break. When we came back she said we were all excused.

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that counts I believe and they cant call on you again for quite some time puff_>>

-murph

I'm the only one I know who has been wanting jury duty since the day I turned 18. 17 yrs later and still nada...My boss got called in this week and was dismissed.

dsethi said:

a year in CA, not that long

jury duty (even if not selected but if you get into a court room where they are selecting jurors) is one of the most interesting experiences I've had.

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Yep one year, not that long at all.


why was it interesting for you? Only reason I'm asking is because my situation was uninteresting.

Only thing that caught my eye was the same demographics sitting next to each other.. Seemed like everyone was separated by age, race and gender, lol.

I've been called twice for jury duty. The last time I stayed a day, then was excused to go home. I actually served on a jury 20 years ago for a trial where the plantiff was suing the Oklahoma Highway Patrol for police brutality. It was held in the same OKC federal building which got bombed a year later. The guy who was suing claimed that the police permanetly injured his eye when they were making the arrest. Keep in mind that this was going on just after the Rodney King beating. So there were many of these kind of people out there who were trying to take advantage of the system while the negative view of cops was still hot. It didn't work on us. This guy served as his own lawyer (first mistake) and called several of his shady friends as character witnesses. Then had some kind of quack doctor come up and give a testimony about his eye injury.

Then the defense lawyer for the 3 patrolmen came on and literally tore this guy a new asshole. He brought in several eyewitnesses that saw this guy raising hell and cussing up a storm late at night in the diner where the patrolmen were also dining. The cops eventually got fed up with his antics and escorted the guy out of the diner. He was obviously drunk and started resisting the cops, so they arrested him. But not before a scuffle. Eyewitnesses say the cops didn't do anything out of the norm. By the way, this was an older white guy. The defense then called their doctor to the stand that refuted this guys claim that the cops injured his eye and he is now blind. The doctor said the reason he was going blind was because he had a degenerative eye disease. And the plantiff had knew it according to medical records. That was pretty much the nail in the coffin, although we all knew all along that this guy was lying and just trying to get money out of the deal.

This trial dragged on for 5 days. Finally when it came time to render a verdict, or in this case how much we were going to award the plantiff, we all agreed that this guy wasn't getting shit. Some lady on the jury suggested we award him a dollar for all his troubles. We all just laughed at her. When it was all over the judge told us that he would like to see the jury in his judges quarters. When we got back there the judge had a smile on his face. He said to us "wasn't this a waste of taxpayers money?" We all agreed. He then told us that the lawyers weren't allowed to mention any of this man's past arrest history in his trial. But he told us that this was the 5th time that he had been arrested by cops and tried to sue the state for police brutaility. And each time he was awarded nothing....Have fun at trial, you never know what you are going to get.

dsethi said:

like you said, demographics - literally people from all backgrounds, classes, etc. I mean there were a ton of people who couldn't even speak English in there but had to go through this process. And then listening to people's responses to the questions the judge posed (e.g. do you have any biases towards police, toward the ethnicity of the defendent, etc) and being forced to respond with reasons...just interesting to listen to all of it. The case being presented was possession of a concealed weapon if I remember. young black defendant.

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See I didn't get that far.. I did notice a lot of people who didn't know english.. Maybe next time I'll get that far and see that process.

BTW were you chosen? How many days did you go?

My girlfriend went for 3 days and didn't even get picked. She was excused cause she was a victim of violence, it was a murder case.

got called and the defense attorney said i could go home

a black guy robbed a taxi driver and since a black guy robbed me at the store i was excused that was back when you found the guy dead in the back room days

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wasn't chosen, they picked the first 16 or so as the jury box, then people started getting dismissed because of some of their absurd stories, was one of the first people randomly selected to fill an empty seat in the box, then was one of the first dismissed as well. literally said 10 words, asked for where i was from, occupation, and did I have an irregular response to one of the questions already asked of the jurors before I was called. Said no, then the defense dismissed me a few minutes later.

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Thats sweet, well unless you really wanted to be in that jury.

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would love to serve on a jury at least once. but I did feel bad for a number of people in that room who literally are losing money by being there vs. working. The system is pretty bad.

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I was talking to this girl there and she told me that shes picked every year. At first she liked it but now its a pain in the ass. She told me she's been picked 7 times already. That would drive me nuts. I personally don't want to do jury duty, ever! But respect that you do.

Served on a jury a few years back. I enjoyed it. 2 day trial. A guy and his wife were fighting, he left for work, came home and she wasn't there. He found her at a local bar, they started arguing, get kicked out of the bar. Several witnesses see her start to slap and push the guy. He walks across the street, she follows and continues hitting him. Finally he back-hands her down to the ground. She has a bloody lip and swollen cheek. We found him not guilty by reason of self defense. I just thought the entire process was interesting, then the judge read the applicable laws of assault and self defense. We talked about it for a few hours and it was pretty unanimous that he made reasonable attempts to flee and that his defense response was in line with the initial attack against him.

Now Justin can say he consults financial advisors and attorneys.