Posted on 07/17/2008 12:56:53 PM PDT by buccaneer81
1. Ask the Judge to explain the concept of Jury Nullification.
2. Ask the Judge why there isn’t an official American Flag in the courtroom. (Most courtroom have an Admiralty flag with gold fringe. This is not an official US flag.)
Huh?
Calling someone an a-----e at this woman's house is not considered disrepectful??
What does she call people she doesn't like?
Drugs or getting hit in the head by her beau, either one explains her idiocy.
“You’ll be out of that courthouse and on the way back to your car so fast your head will spin.”
I told someone that the other day but I said “tell them you belong to FISA”. Personally I welcome jury duty but they’ve never let me serve.
Well, guess what? She’s 23 and already a ward of society. We get to take care of her for the next 50 years or so. Heck, at some point she’s bound to reproduce.
My wife and I were both called for jury duty at the same time. We home school, so there was an issue with coverage for the kids. We respectfully asked that my wife be deferred (not released - but call her up next time) so one of us would be available to be with our 8 y.o.
No dice, of course.
In the end, the trial was cancelled, so we served without having to show up. But I still wonder about the infinite stupidity of requiring a husband and wife with young children to have to show up for the same trial. We have no family in this area, so there’s no such thing as a free babysitter, either.
I understand rules must be enforced, but stupid rules make for stupid enforcement.
/semi-off-topic rant.
Do your jury duty!
Of course, none that herald their ability to skirt their duty would ever complain about 'stupid jury decisions' would they?
“I told someone that the other day but I said “tell them you belong to FISA”. Personally I welcome jury duty but they’ve never let me serve.”
Oops, I meant FIJA.
Who says you have to be a citizen to vote or serve on a jury. Motor-voter registered everyone.
Plus, some citizenship swearing in events have been conducted in all Spanish.
She knows it now. Only in my opinion, the Judge should have sentenced her to 90 days. 89 of them for stupidity. Evidently she never had the Constitution taught to her when she was in school, or she believes the socialists version that so long as one uses profanity or burns an American Flag one has freedom of speech. When we were being taught the Constitution in school , one of the first things we learned is that "freedom of speech" means responsible speech. There a number of things one cannot do regarding speech: One cannot libel someone, one cannot incite a riot, One cannot lie under oath to name a few.
I tried to do my duty.
I carried a copy of the Constitution, I answered their questions honestly, and they sent me home.
Not so fast. A buddy of mine just recently was unable to get off of a capital murder case in which he and I both went to school with the defendants brother-in-law since about the 5th grade. He knew everything about the case obviously because of our friendship with the BIL, and they wouldn't let him off. He wanted off, mostly because he's self-employed and needs to be on the job site supervising his guys, and secondly because he didn't want to have to look at our friend's wife after they convicted the guy. What do you say, sorry I convicted your brother of murder, how's the kids???
This idiot gets about $85 a day for jury duty. Her gas was paid for.
We let the killer go. Sounded like self-defense to all 12 of us.
She said she has hart value problems, this is also common with meth addicts.
A coworker was summoned as a juror for a murder trial. When the defense lawyer got to his “screening questions” he asked what his formal education was. When my co worker said “Masters Degree” the defense lawyer excluded him on the spot.
You’ll be out the door quicker than spit.
Take an Ann Coulter book and have it with her picture facing up will get you out in a hurry too. ☺
You’ll be out the door quicker than spit.
It DIDN'T WORK! And neither did the Life Member Pin. I thought I'd be home free. :-)
As it turned out, they deliberatley chose jurors from the farthest parts of the county...they WANTED PO'd jurors-And we WERE.
Turned out to be a trial for a repeat offender drug dealer. He was giving the Jury "Attitude" looks. Very discretely, a blue-haired old lady locked gazes with him and drew her finger across her throat. He turned pale. After reflection he pled down, and we all went home.
Actually it was an interesting experience, and the judge was great in the After-trial address to us. When the judge said the perp was going to State Prison, one of the jurors remarked, "They'll be playing the Bridal March there tonight", the Judge struggled valiantly not to laugh.
I guess you like surrending all of your rights and privliges as the door of a court? Hell with that.
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