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Stuck in jury duty
Posted on 4/18/24 at 7:59 am
Posted on 4/18/24 at 7:59 am
Any of yall ever been selected? Any interesting trials?
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:01 am to SouthMSReb
I have to call in the entire month of May to see if I am selected. I got a notice last week.
Ive been on a couple juries before, they'll cause you to lose some faith in humanity.
Ive been on a couple juries before, they'll cause you to lose some faith in humanity.
This post was edited on 4/18/24 at 8:02 am
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:01 am to SouthMSReb
Hope this is in a particular trial in New York.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:02 am to SouthMSReb
I was selected and sat there all day until my case plead guilty at 4:45.
Sorry, no interesting story. If you do have to sit, please pay attention. Be the juror you wish you’d have.
Sorry, no interesting story. If you do have to sit, please pay attention. Be the juror you wish you’d have.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:02 am to SouthMSReb
I get selected every 2 years. Last one was attempted murder.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:05 am to SouthMSReb
Slowly start to disrobe, continue to do so and eventually you’ll get out of jury duty.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:06 am to SouthMSReb
A great way to get dismissed would be to post all about the case and what your thoughts on it are. Go for it.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:13 am to SouthMSReb
Where do you live?
Jefferson Parish is awesome...
One day one trial. If you're not selected for a trial, then you're done. No calling for a week or month. You're done.
Jefferson Parish is awesome...
One day one trial. If you're not selected for a trial, then you're done. No calling for a week or month. You're done.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:13 am to SouthMSReb
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Stuck in jury duty
Careful. They’re watching what you post here…
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:17 am to SouthMSReb
That’s a choice. Act like a conservative, and they will dismiss you with quickness.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:18 am to SouthMSReb
I was. Actually served as Foreman.
We tried a guy who robbed a convenience store at gunpoint. threatened to kill several kids and an old man during the robbery. He struck the old guy with his gun and knocked him to the floor.
As he did that, the PoPos pulled up, having been called by a silent alarm the behind the counter guy activated when they guy showed the gun as he walked into the place. The old guy then jerked the robber's feet out from under him and held him on the floor until the PoPos made it inside to arrest him.
In court, the guy testified he had been high on cocaine for several days and was just trying to get some money to buy more. He had no idea where he got the gun, which had been filed clean of serial numbers. He then said if they said he did it, he must have. He said he had no memory of doing it, that his first memory was waking up in jail and finding a small quantity of cocaine he had placed in a pack in his shoe, which he did in jail. He said the video tapes certainly looked like him.
Took us maybe 10 minutes to convict him. One of the guys on the jury was a Little Debby truck driver, and after we found the robber guilty, we all had a Little Debby snack cake from the bag of stuff the truck driver brought with him. That took maybe thirty minutes and then we went back to announce our guilty verdict.
The guy got thirty years at Parchman Prison. IT was a while back and the robber might be back out on the streets by now.
We tried a guy who robbed a convenience store at gunpoint. threatened to kill several kids and an old man during the robbery. He struck the old guy with his gun and knocked him to the floor.
As he did that, the PoPos pulled up, having been called by a silent alarm the behind the counter guy activated when they guy showed the gun as he walked into the place. The old guy then jerked the robber's feet out from under him and held him on the floor until the PoPos made it inside to arrest him.
In court, the guy testified he had been high on cocaine for several days and was just trying to get some money to buy more. He had no idea where he got the gun, which had been filed clean of serial numbers. He then said if they said he did it, he must have. He said he had no memory of doing it, that his first memory was waking up in jail and finding a small quantity of cocaine he had placed in a pack in his shoe, which he did in jail. He said the video tapes certainly looked like him.
Took us maybe 10 minutes to convict him. One of the guys on the jury was a Little Debby truck driver, and after we found the robber guilty, we all had a Little Debby snack cake from the bag of stuff the truck driver brought with him. That took maybe thirty minutes and then we went back to announce our guilty verdict.
The guy got thirty years at Parchman Prison. IT was a while back and the robber might be back out on the streets by now.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:20 am to SouthMSReb
Yes for an assault trial. A guy hit a guy with a tire iron in the parking lot of a white trash truck stop bar. They were fighting over a woman who was married, but not to either one of these guys.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:28 am to SouthMSReb
Knock on the wood…
I’m 47 and have never been notified of jury duty!
I’m 47 and have never been notified of jury duty!
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:42 am to SouthMSReb
Served as a jury foreman last year for case where the charges were 2 counts of 1st degree murder and 2 counts of attempted murder.
This post was edited on 4/18/24 at 8:43 am
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:44 am to SouthMSReb
Done it here 3 times in the 19th here in EBR.
I am NOT doing it a fourth time.
I am NOT doing it a fourth time.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:46 am to SouthMSReb
Served on a 4 day civil trial last summer. It's not too bad if you are a salaried employee and have someone to cover for you. Trial wasn't that interesting but we had breakfast provided every morning and would get to choose the restaurant/food we wanted ordered for lunch each day.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:46 am to SouthMSReb
I was selected twice(1999, 2002), both times were when I was in the Air Force. The letter went to my parents house so she called them and informed them that I was in the Air Force in a different country. I've never received another one since.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:48 am to SouthMSReb
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Any of yall ever been selected?
I’ve been summoned two or three times over the years and selected for one jury that I ended up being chosen as foreman.
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Any interesting trials?
The case we were assigned was an armed robbery & assault case. The defendant, a skinny 19 yr old guy who was about 5’7” & maybe 160 lbs, was accused of going into a tanning bed/video rental place one morning and robbing and pistol whipping the lady clerk who was opening the store. The case against him was based on two things:
1. The clerk picked his picture out from a lineup of local juvenile offenders.
2. A grainy video of a guy in a red hoodie. You could not see his face. But, he had the sleeves pulled up so you could see his forearms.
The defense countered with:
1. His very ancient grandmother, a retired Sunday School teacher, who testified on the morning of the robbery, she cooked him breakfast then his boss came and picked him up to go to work in Bham.
2. His boss, a preacher at a local church, who testified that he picked him up from his grandmother’s house and took him straight to their job site in Bham where they remained until late that day.
3. The owner of the house in Bham, who happened to be an attorney, who testified they were installing cabinets all day that day and did not leave until late that afternoon. They also showed video from the home owner’s security system that showed the boss’s truck parked in his driveway all day without leaving.
4. The prosecution’s own grainy video showing the perp’s forearms, which were from a muscular guy who had forearms at least two or three times larger than this kid’s forearms.
5. The cops who searched the grandmother’s house where they did not find (1) a pistol (2) a red hoodie or (3) the money he was supposed to have stolen.
When both sides rested and we went into the deliberation room, I polled the rest of the jury. All were already in agreement. There was no way this guy did it. We were not in that room more than 5 minutes, if that, before we came back with a “not guilty” verdict.
When we were dismissed I left the court house feeling bad for this kid who had been sitting jail for however long (I think it was like 2-3 months) awaiting trial. I was also horrified at the incompetence of our law enforcement and judicial system for bringing such an obviously flawed case to trial. The sheriff’s dept “investigation” (I use that term loosely) consisted of bringing in a binder with mug shots of every teenager who’d ever been booked for whatever offense and had her pick one out. The one whose pic was picked was the one they chose to prosecute despite the mountain of evidence that there was no way he could be the perp they were looking for. This kid’s only prior offense is he’d been busted with some marijuana and a bong when he was like 17.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:51 am to SouthMSReb
I’m 2 for 2 on getting struck
Both of mine were entertaining.
Some scummy arse lawyers out there. Found out which ones I would not want representing me if anything ever were to put me in that position.
Both of mine were entertaining.
Some scummy arse lawyers out there. Found out which ones I would not want representing me if anything ever were to put me in that position.
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