[buccaneer81]

Three days was too little for this woman' arrogance.

[JoeSixPack1]

No Job.
No Money.
No immediate ailments.
No responsibilities whatsoever.

And as far as Jury Duty,,,,, she just didn’t feel like it!

Good, I wouldn’t want her deciding ANYONE’S fate! Even her own!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

While she may deserve the sentence, judges are entirely a law unto themselves. They control their own police force, the bailiff, they act as the judge against those they accuse and they can send people immediately to jail with out any check or balance from another branch of government.

[evets]

GUILTY

[mikeus_maximus]

What-- no race card?!?

waiting...waiting...

[BenLurkin]

23-year-old insulted the presiding judge by calling him a two-syllable curse word—a crude term referring to the anus

She called him a "Michael Moore"?

[mad_as_he$$]

Most judges are a$$holes. She probably needs to learn to keep her mouth shut though.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

“I’m very sorry for calling you that. I did not know it was illegal, and I did not mean to cause disrespect,” she said.

Huh?

Calling someone an a-----e at this woman's house is not considered disrepectful??

What does she call people she doesn't like?

[11Bush]

This is probably an unpopular opinion, shouldn't be on a 'conservative' forum, but probably is.

Do your jury duty!

Of course, none that herald their ability to skirt their duty would ever complain about 'stupid jury decisions' would they?

[sport]

“I didn’t know I would go to jail for freedom of speech.”

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.

[LetsRok]

This idiot gets about $85 a day for jury duty. Her gas was paid for.

[Centurion2000]

Three days was too little for this woman' arrogance.

I guess you like surrending all of your rights and privliges as the door of a court? Hell with that.

[YOUGOTIT]

Any time a judge puts someone in jail without a trial they are in direct violation of the Constitution. But they do not care about the Constitution.

[MEGoody]

“I was very upset that my excuse that I needed to go to the doctor was not as good an excuse as a lie,” she said later

I guess it would depend on whether the need to see the doctor was urgent. I have a feeling it wasn't.

[EternalVigilance]

Choosing jurors is serious business.

At the trial of my sister’s murderer, a bad one slipped through the selection process. It was an open-and-shut case of first degree premeditated murder, DNA evidence, video of the perp arriving at and leaving the scene of the crime, etc. This juror, who fit the descriptive used by the lady in this story, threatened to hang the jury and got the rest of them to hand down a second-degree conviction. A travesty.

Thank God another adjoining state had already convicted the animal on another first-degree rap and given him life without parole. He’ll rot there until he dies and faces a Judge who doesn’t make mistakes.

[jjm2111]

I don’t understand people’s, esp. conservative’s, desire to get out of juries. It’s part of being in a republic. Yes, I think the “pay” is a waste. But why should juries be composed of people too stupid to get out of jury duty?

IMO, voir dire should be banned and the first 12 people who don’t have a clear conflict of interest with either the judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, or defendents should be picked. No jacking jurors because a lawyer feels that juror won’t vote the way they want to.

[IM2MAD]

Fifty years or so ago, the son of an acquaintance of mine was in court for disturbing the peace with his noisy, muffler-less motorcycle. While the judge was admonishing him for his thoughtlessness, the judge passed gas in a window rattling way to which the young man responded “What? No muffler?” I don't know the outcome but the courtroom broke out in gales of laughter.

[commonguymd]

Jury duty is our right and our duty in a nation of laws. Just do it.

[windcliff]

ping

[RinaseaofDs]

Another fine upstanding citizen that doesn’t notice the word ‘duty’ when reading the jury summons.

[Billthedrill]

"Civic duty." If it were you accused of a crime, what kind of jury would you want?

Some advice from someone who has been there a few times - do NOT screw around with this. First, there isn't anything you can come up with that the judge hasn't seen before or at least heard of. Second, not showing up results in a little thingy called a "bench warrant." Third, somebody's freedom is at stake. It isn't about you.

That said, I did get rejected one time after the defense counsel asked what bumper stickers the pool had and I answered "NRA Life Member." There are cases for which that actually does work.