I hope I get a jury duty summons. I’d have so much fun with that.
This is racial profiling.
I’ve been on 3 juries. And while I believe I was chosen for at least 2 because I am black I am convinced they were shocked to not get the liberal they had hoped for.
People here need to livestream video from the courtroom so the judge can not have it impounded, and get it posted all over the internet.
I would very loudly be asking the judge if my multi racial background offended the court, and when did a eugenic purity program become part of jurisprudence in a free country.
Come to think of it, I played out scenes like this in the military when crap like this came up. Generally they shifted me to assignments away from stupidity.
I never did any brig time for confronting this sort of crap either. Of course, Reagan was president for 2/3 of my time in.
NOBODY is genetically pure, ESPECIALLY "black" people.
I’m sorry, I can’t answer those questions.
The government has never assigned me a race or ethnicity.
I’m a Native American.
How do “race” and “ethnicity” differ?
I’m serving this fall, for the first time in my life because I don’t have a baby right now, and I have been chosen to serve in COMPTON. I don’t think I will need to fill out that card as I will appear ghostly in the jury box.
They should also be required to reveal which caped crusader action figure they think they are.
I look for a day when questionnaires will be judged not by the colour of their ink, but by the content of their answers.
“I’m a Viking!”
“I’m a Creachadair!”
“I’m a Celt! And I have Mead!”
Descendant of Noah here.
Actually, I am against the whole jury choosing system. They should take the first however many people, and each lawyer gets to toss off one person. The ONLY other reason someone can be tossed off is if they know someone involved in the trial. Otherwise, sorry, they are on the jury. End of story. This whole business of choosing juries is completely and totally NOT with justice in mind.
Jury Quota’s and Jury affirmative action.
That 12 bucks you get for jury duty is a lot of money.
As a college educated, white Christian male business owner that has worked his entire life without receiving govt aid once... If I went to trial and wanted a jury ‘of my peers’... Would they be the local subway employees that would never relate to 80 hr weeks... Or people of similar demographics?
Yea, I know... I’d get stuck with the subway employees that believe more in socialism than capitalism
here in WNY, there is a jury information survey that they mail to you. I called and asked if this was a summons - they said no. I told them when they sent me a summons, I would answer questions when I appear. I was told I’d be “in violation.” I believe each question was answered when I surrendered my TX drivers license for NY DL. I’ve received the “VIOLATION” remailing of the survey. I’m moving back to TX in two weeks... oh well...
Don’t know if I’m misreading this somehow or if Heather Yakin screwed up, but: The dateline states the location as GOSHEN. If she was referring to NYC, the correct nickname for The Big Apple is GOTHAM, not GOSHEN.
Goshen was the wonderful land of milk and honey that pharoah gave to Jacob and his sons when they went to Egypt to escape a famine back home.
Gen 46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Gen 46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
Gen 46:7 His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Gen 47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
Cool. Having a fair amount of Scot in the mix, I think I’d go with “Not crap”.