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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm doing Jury Duty right now, ask me anything
Some questions I will answer, others I will not.
Ive gotta three hours to burn before I report to the courtroom.
Lets go!
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)So far, nope.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I cant answer that right now anyway
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)global1
(25,285 posts)Guilty or not-guilty? Did you tell the judge before the trial?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Havent passed voir dire. Either way, nope.
Waiting to get selected, and if I do, Ill have to decide on both the evidence and the law. I have not spoken to the judge. Not planning to either.
Unlike the Republicans, my goal today is to be a good and dutiful juror.
global1
(25,285 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Perhaps you should offer to cooperate fully with the defense.
FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)I'm assuming once the trial starts, there's no tweeting allowed.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I had a chicken sharwama instead
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)And the judge wouldn't like the trial interrupted so often.
brewens
(13,631 posts)In north central Idaho, he had an astonishingly open minded jury too. The kids lawyer did a good job. He even got the K-9 unit officer to admit the dogs will sometimes give a false alert. That was huge. The defense had to call him back the next morning to try and walk that back. But the lawyer didn't have much to work with. We came back guilty on possession with intent to distribute and the parole violation.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)brewens
(13,631 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)That is, if I get picked. Otherwise, nada for now
cilla4progress
(24,783 posts)In the end?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)There are numerous situations in which the truth should not win.
Decisions about what evidence you are allowed to see, or not see, have already been made - independent of whether it is "true".
If it is a civil trial, then true information about insurance coverage and claims is being deliberately kept from you.
You are being asked to make a determination on the basis of some, but not all, of the relevant information.
Because some of the information being kept from you, even if true, is either prejudicial or inadmissible through some procedural defect.
For example, the suspect may have truthfully confessed to the crime, but due to a defect in the way that confession was obtained, you will not know that. Convincing evidence of guilt may have been found, but due to a problem with the search warrant, you will not hear about it.
Do not believe for one moment that truth "should" always win in the US legal system. Procedural fairness should win. And it sometimes wins over truth.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The possibilities are endless, of course. I once spent a lot of time wondering what on earth's going on with those who have to sit through the almost endless preliminaries over, and over, and over, and over. Are they somehow doing something? Did they permanently retreat into a dissociative fugue long before and are just propped up each day?
Another time I imagined how I might turn a closed gas station/restaurant across the street in the middle of town into a home to live in. Required a LOT of jackhammering of pavement to put in my imagined garden, but the town was in Southern California and stacked "stone" walls of broken concrete are fairly common. The trees were almost mature and the bathroom about due for remodeling before I got out of there.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Ive done that a long time ago. Id love to get back at it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to work from, I might be there right now. Enjoy your service.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)Is it hotter in the summer than it is in the city or is it colder in the winter than it is in the country?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)No idea
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Most people like where it is now better than when it was in the place it used to be.
Remember that guy who lived over where the other thing used to be? I saw his ex-wifes sisters friends daughter (the older one) last week and she said hes still there!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,374 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Probably not
Vinca
(50,318 posts)Or innocent? That's a fast trip out the door if you want it to be and it's downright presidential these days.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The better approach is to act disinterested, and reflexively say "guilty" whenever your name is called for roll.
Like, "Guilty! Uh, oh, sorry, I mean present!"
Actually I wont mind getting picked
Srkdqltr
(6,341 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Holiday..the defendant was brought in..there had to be about 60 jurors..the judge went around the room and asked who had flight tickets..they were dismissed..then we were told the death penalty was on the table..I immediately raised my hand..the judge acknowledged me, and I explained I was against the death penalty..he told me to have a nice day...
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)At least I dont have to worry about this trial being so dramatic
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)at the time..I was new to AZ from Mass..where the fight over the death penalty went on for years..An attempt to reinstate the death penalty failed on a 73-80 vote in the House on March 29, 1999 - finally put to rest in '07..
Be well..I enjoyed the morning visiting with fellow jurors at the time..called in afternoon..
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)if you have a "moral objection" to anything. I marked yes and when the judge asked what that was, I replied opposed to the death penalty.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,374 posts)These are important jury questions, of course.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,374 posts)And when the new Wayne Co. jail and courthouse is built, it'll probably be even worse. Less parking, fewer restaurants.
aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)And will provide hideous ones if you dont own one.
They made a guy wear a tie with his polo shirt.
It looked terrible but the judge was pleased.
jcgoldie
(11,655 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Response to MrScorpio (Reply #42)
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lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)The second I refuse to apply the law as its written because I believe in the right of juror nullification, Im taken of there. Killed a whole county case in one selection.
FM123
(10,054 posts)The last time I served, they had Avatar on - for some reason I still remember that...