[Mr. Dashbee]

As my subject might lead you to believe, I'm stuck at a court house for jury duty. Right now I'm in the middle of a 2.5 hour break. We're currently in juror selection, or as they call it "juror elimination." If I survive elimination (heh) then I'm likely in for 4 weeks. I thought I'd be home within 2 hours of showing up. Now I'm stuck, armed only with my new LG Dare, which luckily has internet access. Too bad I can't find any Erin Andrews screenshots. And my phone's browser doesn't allow a carraige return...so I have to write one big paragraph.

[Chris Eco]

Suggestion, though I'm unsure you can get it from here: my dad got eliminated from jury duty for being a right-wing bastard who wanted to fry the bastards and refused to pay anyone "pain and suffering" unless it was for actual medical bills, dammit.

Going hard-left or hard-right is usually an easy way to get out quickly.

[Jack Quinn]

Jury duty is the worst thing ever. Just fucking horrible.

[Mr. Dashbee]

We haven't gotten to individual questioning yet. They'll probably do that at 3. I just hope they finish today, so I don't have to come back Monday. Jury days run 10:30-4:30, and work has a policy of providing full paid leave for it, so I'm half like "fuck it, pick me!"

[Byrntrigan]

Or have radical views on human beings.

That works surprisingly well.

[Fire-Babe]

See, I'm jealous. I'm never called for jury duty. And if I were, I'd be excused in voir direalmost immediately. I'd be excused by the prosecution for being a liberal hippie college professor, and if not that, I'd be excused by the defense for working at the evil police department. At least in criminal cases. I'm sure those would be enough to be excused in civil cases as well.

Hell, if work pays for it, may as well do it. Juries need reasonably intelligent people on them, not just whoever is unemployed.

[Batman]

Jul 23, 2009 15:53:12 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Or have radical views on human beings.

What the hell does that mean?

[Stu]

I did Jury Duty last month, and we don't get voir dired. Every possible candidate turns up and the jury is picked at random from a bowl. Didn't get picked the first day*, but had to go back through the week. No Jury was needed the second day, but I got picked on the wednesday (breach of the peace/resisting arrest/assualting an officer), but the guy was cleared of the charges the next day because the prosecution didn't think it was warranted.

*which is a shame because the case was about a guy accused of hitting a guy in the head and torso with a machete repeatedly...without killing him

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Jul 23, 2009 15:57:20 GMT -5 Batman said:

Jul 23, 2009 15:53:12 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Or have radical views on human beings.

What the hell does that mean?

It's Byrnie being Byrnie

[punk/core]

Seriously, it's not that hard to get out of this. I've gotten out of jury duty every time I've been called just by giving some lame excuse.

[DevSop]

The N word normally helps. Or a C word. Maybe an S word.

[Mr. Dashbee]

There's about 30 of us left out of the 80 that started. You'd think that they'd gotten rid of me since it's a child abuse case and I have two little ones at home. It's starting to feel like an audition where you want to get picked. I almost hope they take me.

[Mr. Dashbee]

Jul 23, 2009 15:49:31 GMT -5 Jack Quinn said:

Jury duty is the worst thing ever. Just fucking horrible.

Ask me in 4 weeks when the trial is over. I'm no longer #38...I'm now juror #9. Looks like this thread will continue...

[punk/core]

It's a child abuse case? Oh come on! You should have started crying and saying that you were abused as a child.

[Byrntrigan]

Jul 23, 2009 16:11:31 GMT -5 The Jewish Cunthead said:

Jul 23, 2009 15:57:20 GMT -5 Batman said:

What the hell does that mean?

It's Byrnie being Byrnie

I thought it was a nice way of saying that you are a racist. or think broads are stupid, or hate men, or whatever. You know, without saying those things.

MTA: You as in a potential juror, not you Serg.

[Habs]

Jul 23, 2009 19:02:47 GMT -5 Mr. Dashbee said:

Jul 23, 2009 15:49:31 GMT -5 Jack Quinn said:

Jury duty is the worst thing ever. Just fucking horrible.

Ask me in 4 weeks when the trial is over. I'm no longer #38...I'm now juror #9. Looks like this thread will continue...

Apparently not

[Mr. Dashbee]

There's not too much to report. 5 kids are involved, we've heard from 3. We also heard from Mom, a felon herself. Still 2 more kids to go, plus a gaggle of cops & social workers. Doesn't matter...dude's guilty as hell.