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Roscoe on Jury Duty.......

I'm headed for jury duty today. Can't wait. Last time I was forman and we locked up some skell who mugged a girl after leaving his probation officer.

Roscoe

Take a good book, lot's of waiting.....waiting......

Did that two weeks ago,sat around until lunch, came back from lunch and they sent us home. What a waste of time,but I did get paid $5.00 yahoo!!

Art,

That sounds like Hawaii, only we get something like $3.85/hour.

Just do what you do, Roscoe, the only Marine I respect.

UT

Roscoe

Tell them he's/she's guilty before you hear the evidence. Sure to get you sent home.

"Must be guilty Your Honour otherwise the Police would not have him before the Court....:LOL:

Have fun.

Well I arrived at 8:10 and sat around till 10:00 when a group of us were called into a courtroom. The skell was a rasta-man accused of selling/dist coke and heroin (imagine that!) Had about 5 counts.

I wound up as juror #2 around 11:00. Went through the interview fine. It took till around 4:00 to pick the jury and the minute the voir dire started the defense broad dismissed me.

Went back to the jury room and was told I was done.

Too bad. Last time I wound up forman of a jury on a criminal case and convicted the guy. Put him away for 3 years.

Maybe next time.

Roscoe

An aside, I almost apologize, this is how I have avoided jury duty for over 20 years. (I'm sorry, I can't live on $15/day during a protracted trial)

"Your honor, I know how the justice system works. If the DA pursues a case, that means he has evidence and testimony that will totally convince a jury that the defendant is guilty. The trial is a formality and, pushing the edges of contempt, I'm sorry, I will probably sleep through much of it and vote 'guilty' at the end of it."

They shooed me out the back door every trial session for 10 years, I have not been called up for 5 years. The "random" computer program for prospective jurors somehow magically ignores me.

Thank God for Oklahoma. We have not... quite... joined the Union.

You would like it here, Roscoe. I can take a deep breath anytime I want. I can pee off my back porch. The local cops hassle my little blue car, but only when I am driving it.

I was dismissed from jury duty several times in the late '80's, and have not been called for jury duty since.
UT