Jury duty tomorrow... cheer me up!!! Stories?

[NickInMesa]

Well, I will do it without much resentment because I believe that a right to a jury of your peers is essential to a good democratic system (I am only semi-sarcastic).

I have JD tomorrow at the Superior Court. Wish me luck.

If they pick me, I will try to do my best to make it a fair trial.

Of course if they pick me, I believe I will have to shut up and not tell you what trial I am sitting for.

So who's been on a jury duty before?

Do you have stories to tell?

[Joe Gress]

Complete waste of ****ing time. The trial is only a popularity contest on decideing who has the better ******** story to feed you. Justice? Complete horse****. There is no such thing as justice, especially when it comes to the victims of the crime. Best thing that happened while on the jury was when we went to the bar afterwards and got completely ****ing **** faced.


But the last week and today were the biggest wastes of time I have ever been a part of. I can not believe that 12 random people couldn't give a **** enough to care about either the victim or the defendants future that we were deciding. All because some of us had our "lives" to get back to. Yeah, and the poor dead bastard that is now in hell? Nothing better is ever thought of him except he shouldn't have been doing what he was doing when he did it. And the murderer? He gets to go kill someone again.


**** our legal system and all its ******** loopholes.

[MadMan118]

I had it once for a civil case it was boring as hell. Sorry im not going to sugar coat it, id rather have spent the time in the DMV at least there I could have slept.

[UnsungZeros]

Do what this guy did:



http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...0091jury1.html

[Joe Nerve]

I had a great time the 2 days I was there. I was thrown into a room where they were choosing a jury for an accident case. It was freaking unreal. The lawyers assigned to the case were like like cartoon characters. True charicatures of the Lawyer stereotype. One young one that I swear you'd think was on a stage in a comedy farce. And he was dead serious. On the second day when nothing was getting accomplished a judge came in to yell at the lawyers in front of everyone, telling them they had 3 minutes each in front of us, cutting them off, abusing them to the point that the lawyers were all asking "what is your name, sir?" and jotting it down. it was awesome.

when it came down to the last few and I knew I was going to be chosen for the case (I was one of the few rational english speaking ones left) I raised my hand and said I have to speak in private to you. I didn't want to be on jury duty, I get paid by the day and would be losing $150 every day I was there. I told them this, and they said "everybody else is missing work too." I came back angrily saying in a somewhat crazy rant that the woman in this case is trying to get rich by sueing thses guys while she's causing me to lose money. she's claiming she has TMJ which I think is BS cuz I was diagnosed with that years ago, and I'm fine. there's no freaking way in hell I'd let her win. I don't believe her. I dont' believe there's such a thing as TMJ. Put me on the jury if you like, but you know where I stand. They said, "ok, ok... sit down. I went home.

[NickInMesa]

Originally Posted by UnsungZeros

Do what this guy did:

A guy named Susan Or Sue...

Funny crap, though.

Yeah my wife took the surgeon who completely botched my father in law surgery and killed him.

After ER surgeons safe his life a first time, and they told him to stop because he had no clue what he was doing, he kept on performing an operation which he advertized he was an expert about but actually had never done before.

Lied in documents about the time of death. The ST and the nurses testified that he had no clue what he was doing. One of the nurses told hospital staff before the operation the same thing and she was told to shut up because it was good money.

When they told his family waiting that he just died, he had been dead for 2 hours, because the surgeon had to spend that time prior to talk to his lawyer.

Turned out the jury decided to side with the surgeon because, as we were told later, they thought the relatives would receive millions of dollars (actually the amount was very reasonable) and they were only paid a few bucks an hour.

My wife is not pissed for the money, she did not give a rat's ass about the money, we both work and make a living, plus we're the pride self-made type. Her share was going to be less than $100K and it was going to go to a college savings account for our kids. She is pissed at the fact that he was acquitted.

She has her own choice words about the justice system.

He did get his licensed revoked by his peer after they had their own trial and did find him indeed guilty.

[drteeth]

Originally Posted by NickInMesa

He did get his licensed revoked by his peer after they had their own trial and did find him indeed guilty.

At least that part went right.

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by NickInMesa

A guy named Susan Or Sue....

Susan is the name of the notary.

-Mike

[Stumbo]

I was called once. Didn't go. Called the last day of the scheduled time and got a message on the telephone: "Thank you for your service. Your jury duty service is fulfilled". Guess they didn't need me.

The year before I was being interviewed in court and I told the judge I was biased on a certain issue. The judge got bugged and told me that I had to service alternative service in the administration. I guess it was helping out in the office or something. When the clerk escorted me back to the jury pool, someone was making announcements over the P.A. and the person helping the clerk didn't hear him correctly. She stamped my paper work as "service completed" and I went home.

[FL Knifemaker]

Most people don't like jury duty because it's about 99% listening and 1% talking

[JimB52]

I've served on two juries, and have learned that if I'm ever in serious legal trouble, I'll let the Judge decide my case.
Out of a random group of 12 people, 8 will be morons and 4 would rather be elsewhere.
Seven words to get you out of jury duty - "Your Honor, I find you VERY attractive."

[shadowtippy]

I served on a "Grand Jury" for 6 months. We didn't try cases, we decided whether or not to send cases to trial. Most of it was boring and a lot of it was could have as easily been decided by a Ouiji (sp) board. I fulfilled my civic duty and got paid, I think, $9 for each once a month session.

[Jim Campbell]

Originally Posted by Joe Gress

Complete waste of ****ing time. The trial is only a popularity contest on decideing who has the better ******** story to feed you. Justice? Complete horse****. There is no such thing as justice, especially when it comes to the victims of the crime. Best thing that happened while on the jury was when we went to the bar afterwards and got completely ****ing **** faced.


But the last week and today were the biggest wastes of time I have ever been a part of. I can not believe that 12 random people couldn't give a **** enough to care about either the victim or the defendants future that we were deciding. All because some of us had our "lives" to get back to. Yeah, and the poor dead bastard that is now in hell? Nothing better is ever thought of him except he shouldn't have been doing what he was doing when he did it. And the murderer? He gets to go kill someone again.


**** our legal system and all its ******** loopholes.

here it's a big joke......even when they convict the courts hand out such ridiculous light sentences,that after all the mandatory release,double time credit for remand,temporary unescorted absences,etc the convicted do very little time......

i got called early this year,so i sent them a letter stating that i had no desire to participate in their joke of a justice system,for those reasons......they could force me to sit if they liked,but it would be up to them to determine if i would be of any value to the proceedings......i was excused

[sarcastro83]

Originally Posted by UnsungZeros

Do what this guy did:



http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...0091jury1.html

Why did he censor the F-Bomb, but not the part about his dogs balls?

[IPA]

hung a jury once or twice. easiest way one citizen can fight stupid prohibition laws...

[Richland123]

I was called twice. I was selected as an alternate juror once and had to sit through a week long trial but I never had a vote on the outcome. The second time, I was not selected since I had previously worked for a corporation that was one of the many listed in a case but it would not have affected me on the jury.

[BlacksHole]

Served on a jury once and enjoyed it. We all paid attention and tried to do the right thing (and I believe we did).

[Din Of Win]

Ughhh... i had an epic battle with the state of MD over jury duty. I eventually won though!

My jury duty date was scheduled for a day in the middle of a tour. I think i was in St. Louis the day that they wanted me there. I argued that it was my source of income and i eventually was allowed to skip it.

[mulchor]

I had jury duty once, a civil case. It involved coincidentally the same equipment/technique that I'd done my dissertation on.

Needless to say, I was the first one the defendants kicked out of the pool, but it took a day and a half to get to that point.

Justice is blind. Justice is beautiful. Justice is NOT efficient or considerate. Bring some books.

[MatticusMania]

For some reason my jury duty notices all get 'lost in the mail'.