Posted on 01/30/2009 9:06:34 PM PST by Michael Eden
I've been on jury duty this week. Had to call in every day, not knowing whether I'd have to throw away my schedule to satisfy the court or not. Of course, Thursday evening I was told I needed to call in at 10:00 Friday morning. And then at 10:00 Friday morning I was told I'd have to call in again at 1:30 in the afternoon.
And, of course - after a week of calling in - when I called in at 1:30 I was told I'd have to come in at 3:15. On a Friday. So I can pretty much be guaranteed to have to come back Monday.
Just in case I didn't realize that the government owns me whenever it wants to.
Now, I thought if Obama got elected, we'd be free at last of our indentured servitude of the white master. But here we are, just 10 days into his presidency, and I'm already in even worse bondage than I was before.
So after reporting in at the assembly room, I was told to go with the rest of the herd to court room 3R. As our names were called, we were to say our names as we filed out. "Mooo - I mean - Michael Eden," I said.
I don't know how that line went over in your cavern, but it killed in the assembly room.
I got a chance to slay 'em again in the elevator, as the same people who laughed at my "cattle impersonation" crammed into the elevator. I said, "This just takes me right back to that whole, 'feeling like cattle' thing."
There were 58 of us in our herd (I counted) waiting to go into the court room and be culled into a smaller herd of 12 + 1. And what were we all there for?
To hear a misdemeanor case involving a man charged with driving under the influence, with a blood alcohol content of .08 or higher.
The judge explained that the accused decided he wanted a jury trial, and by law today was the last day to schedule a trial to hear the case of a man who was arrested in March of 2008.
Kind of infuriating. I mean, all of us sitting there because of this turkey. It's not like he's some poor innocent schmuck who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He knows he drank booze and drove. And now I've got to sit there - wasting at least two days of a relatively productive life - because this jerk is trying to weasel his way out of admitting he did what he did.
And, of course, the same damn California court system that is imposing the harshest global warming agenda in the damn country is making me and 57 other people drive back and forth. I had a 29-mile one-way drive. And I drove my gas-guzzling and smog-spewing '71 455 HO-engined Pontiac to make it even worse. I only drove her today because she needed a good drive after spending too much time as "garage queen." But as my act of civil protest, I'll drive it to court every day.
Is it just me, or is jury duty becoming a annual rite? It used to be I'd go several years at a time and not even get a summons. And if I GOT a summons, I'd just call in every day for a week and complete my service. But now it's every damn year. And every damn year I'm stuck on a damn jury. Some guy driving around like a drunk slob. Some societal reject who can't even make it down the block without having drugs in his possession. Some total loser beating his wife or girlfriend so he can pretend he's a man. There are way too many losers now, and apparently way too few normal people to waste their lives hearing their sorry cases.
Man, is our society going to hell. According to the judge, the Riverside Superior Court isn't even hearing civil cases anymore because the backlog of criminal cases is so high. We can't build enough jails to house all our losers, vermin, and predators. And one out of every twenty Americans is now expected to do serious jail time in his life, with 1 in every 100 Americans actually in prison right now.
Of course, the nice thing about being a criminal going to court is that they at least take care of your transportation and your meals.
All you gotta say if you wish to get out of Jury duty is say, “I listen to AM radio”, and if you dont wish to be “deselected” from jury duty is to say I voted for Sanjaia.
Gosh, I feel so sorry for somebody called to jury duty. What an awful thing to suffer through. I also believe that any individual should have the right to decide that another person accused of a crime is not entitled to a trial. That person should then just be convicted.
Show up with, and start reading your, pocket version of the U.S.Constitution.
Oakland CA doesn’t do much right, but they have this down pat. A different pool for each day. You call the night before and you sometimes have to call at noon the following day, but that’s it.
The bad part, though, is I get a jury notice once every two years like clockwork.
That’s golden.
We need good FReepers on juries. Hang in there. What if only the conservatives showed up for jury duty? We’d run the country.
Just tell them; “If he was innocent the Police would not have arrested him!!” You’ll be out of that court room in a flash.
I got stuck on a federal jury at a trial because some guy spanked his child on an airplane flight and a jerk school teacher accused him of abusing his child.....
Wasted 3 days of my life...
They should have thrown the busybody public servant into the slammer.....
The prosecutor had not a single witness...what an ass....
A lawyer friend of mine told me to ignore the jury summons if I wanted to. If your actually harassed by the system just tell them you never got the letter.....works every time.
I will respect the law when the law deserves respect....no sooner.
Ever wonder why so many criminals?
CAUSE WE’VE SPENT 200 YEARS PUTTING LAWS ON THE BOOKS AND NOBODY BOTHERS TO GET RID OF ANY.
I'm not going to try that. The sheriff lives just around the corner.
So did the rest of the jury agree with you and let the guy go?
Well, Gracedad’s (comment #3) rant to the contrary, I actually DO show up and serve when called.
I have never told a lie to the court or misrepresented myself in order to get relieved.
Someone like me has to serve or that slimeball drunk’s car will end up on top of some little kid.
But unfortunately, it’s not the juries that change the country; it’s the judges. And the left has so many “judicial activists” and bleeding hearts who value criminals’ rights far more than victims’ that it is unreal.
What we need is FReepers to go to get elected or appointed to judgeships!
Well, I DO listen to AM radio. And I will look for an opportunity to mention my “conservative blog” as well.
I suppose if the left is going to think that conservatives are psychologically unhinged and dangerous, we might as well get SOMETHING to show for it.
“A lawyer friend of mine told me to ignore the jury summons if I wanted to. If your actually harassed by the system just tell them you never got the letter.....works every time.
I will respect the law when the law deserves respect....no sooner.”
I’ve got one of them, “Obey the government unless they tell you to do something wrong” attitudes as a result of my doing something a lot of courts today despise and believing my Bible.
But our legal system IS unworthy of respect. When you take something as simple as the 2nd amendment and decide to eliminate gun rights anyway, what can you say?
There are so many bogus legal opinions surrounding the Constitution from so many activist judges ruling pretty much any damn way they want to that the Constitution is virtually irrelevant to our legal system today.
I say if you are up for juror duty and you think it will not be a waste of your time.. Do it. If you know the system is so rigged towards a defendant that your time would be better served hitting yourself in the head with a tack hammer, proceed as recommended. If you want to buck the system by getting on Jury duty and you know the cards are a bit stacked against fairness - I like you already. I personally would accept jury duty beause I’ve been unemployed for some time now, and I look towards the day I make my splash as jury foreman, and mess with as many libtards as I can. untill I get kicked off anyway.
“So did the rest of the jury agree with you and let the guy go?”
In 30 seconds....
That is really amazing to me
Thanks for your story, don't you just love Jury Duty ?
;)
“Just tell them; “If he was innocent the Police would not have arrested him!!” You’ll be out of that court room in a flash.”
Or:
“I belive in driving drunk. There is nothing in the Consituion that says I can’t.”
you would have been out the door in a flash.
belive = believe
Consituion = Constitution
Sorry. I was typing to fast.
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