How on earth did they seat someone who's been exposed to the FReeper view of the mainstream media in general and this pack in particular?
I served on a six-week federal trial - a doctor in Michigan was suing 60 Minutes because his practice went to hell a year after he was interviewed.It's very tough to get out of federal "jury duty". Fortunately, it can last as little as a day, as it did for me. "Our" case was rescheduled, and later settled. I never heard from them again.How on earth did they seat someone who's been exposed to the FReeper view of the mainstream media in general and this pack in particular?
I did get off a good shot on a particularly obnoxious clerk. When we were told the case would be delayed, one woman said there might be a problem because she had surgery scheduled in a couple weeks. This clerk quite arrogantly said "this is more important!". I then told him "you know, a******s like you are why people hate lawyers". He sputtered and such but did nothing.
I had an ace in the hole, I had met the judge a few years before when the state YAF board held a meeting at her house (husband was a state rep). The meeting was on Super Bowl Sunday (!) and she and I were watching the game in the kitchen. Cool lady, quite down to earth. I knew that if the snot had made an issue of my comment to her, she would have agreed with me, and he probably knew this too. >:)
-Eric
This was about 10 years ago, when Ed Bradley still had black hair.