Jury Duty

Son of the Suns · Post by **Son of the Suns** » 2004-03-03 02:41am

If you use the "I hate [insert group]" they hold you in contempt of court.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-03-03 02:50am

Dalton wrote:...Hall of Justice? Who's the judge, Superman?

I don't know, that's what they call it, though.

Oddysseus · Post by **Oddysseus** » 2004-03-03 04:10am

Dalton wrote:...Hall of Justice? Who's the judge, Superman?

Well, yeah. Wonder Woman stands in as a bailif. Flash is the stenographer. Batman is up for the prosecution. And the Green Lantern is up for the defense. Batman's pretty sharp with a lot of keen and cutting arguments and questions. BUt GL keeps manufacturing new evidence.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-03-03 04:23am

I liked jury duty when I did it last year.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-03-03 10:03am

Oddysseus wrote:
Dalton wrote:...Hall of Justice? Who's the judge, Superman?
Well, yeah. Wonder Woman stands in as a bailif. Flash is the stenographer. Batman is up for the prosecution. And the Green Lantern is up for the defense. Batman's pretty sharp with a lot of keen and cutting arguments and questions. BUt GL keeps manufacturing new evidence.

The one problem is that trials are frequently in recess whenever another attack is launched by THE LEGION OF DOOM!

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-03-03 10:14am

Seriously, I've done criminal and civil jury duty and never found it to be that bad an ordeal. I often brought a book to read while waiting in the pool and was lucky enough that in the civil pool I wound up with one of my teachers from Delgado and one of the sportswriters from the local paper.

I sat on an assault-3 case that really shouldn't have gotten as far as trial for the paucity of evidence presented by the prosecution, and we acquitted in a half hour. The civil trial was for an insurance fraud case and we had a nice judge who did everything he could to engage us in the proceedings.

The one real ordeal I was put through was for voir dere examination for a first time drug case the state was looking to convict for a twenty year sentence. The accused was a first-time offender and didn't quite have sale-weight cocaine on him. I stated my political beliefs in regards to the drug war and wound up having to debate the judge and the ADA for five full minutes before they excused me.

In every other case, they either wound up with a full jury before they got to me or I was dismissed on preemptory challenge. So it wasn't bad for me.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-03-03 10:23pm

Yeah, but do you think they'll try to do anything to me for not showing up at the Hall of Justice when they told me to because they didn't give me enough warning?

Son of the Suns · Post by **Son of the Suns** » 2004-03-03 10:42pm

So your kung-fu has finally failed you eh?

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-03-03 10:43pm

The one real ordeal I was put through was for voir dere examination for a first time drug case the state was looking to convict for a twenty year sentence. The accused was a first-time offender and didn't quite have sale-weight cocaine on him. I stated my political beliefs in regards to the drug war and wound up having to debate the judge and the ADA for five full minutes before they excused me.

Man, I would've loved to see that.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-03-03 10:43pm

Son of the Suns wrote:So your kung-fu has finally failed you eh?

No, no, no! I just don't know if I'm going to have to exercise it...