Comments on: Jurybreak http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/22/jurybreak/ In New York, no cares if you scream Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hdcr_LoS http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/22/jurybreak/#comment-19159 hdcr_LoS Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:26:56 +0000 http://alienlovespredator.com/?p=1466#comment-19159 I just usually tell them I don't speak English. But I stopped using that excuse because I'm sure the INS got the gov't to wiretap my phone. Sorry, I no speaka Een-glesh. I just usually tell them I don’t speak English. But I stopped using that excuse because I’m sure the INS got the gov’t to wiretap my phone. Sorry, I no speaka Een-glesh.

]]> By: OneMonthInTheFuture http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/22/jurybreak/#comment-19065 OneMonthInTheFuture Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:58:11 +0000 http://alienlovespredator.com/?p=1466#comment-19065 Freedom isn't free Because justice isn't just Chains you cannot see Used too often to rust Silent-ly Forcing thee To do what they say you must Freedom isn’t free
Because justice isn’t just
Chains you cannot see
Used too often to rust
Silent-ly
Forcing thee
To do what they say you must

]]> By: DCS http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/22/jurybreak/#comment-18955 DCS Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:06:53 +0000 http://alienlovespredator.com/?p=1466#comment-18955 Ah, jury duty. I was exempt for many years because I was active duty military, but when I left the Army and settled down, I got summoned for jury duty three different times (each summons was for a period of three months) over the space of about five years. I was empanelled on an attempted murder trial on my first summons. the next two times I was summoned, when we went to voir-dire, I could honestly respond that I had been empanelled before. Then, in chambers during the subsequent interview, I could recall entirely too much detail about the trial for which I was on the jury. The defending lawyer immediately dismissed me -- they don't want anyone with any memory capacity at all! I absolutely agree with Dark_T above -- the lawyers don't want anyone who can actually remember any of the details, they only want people who will manage to stay awake for the final summations, and then decide on an emotional basis. Frustrating to realize that our justice system, despite all it's claims, is not really about finding the TRUTH. Ah, jury duty. I was exempt for many years because I was active duty military, but when I left the Army and settled down, I got summoned for jury duty three different times (each summons was for a period of three months) over the space of about five years.

I was empanelled on an attempted murder trial on my first summons. the next two times I was summoned, when we went to voir-dire, I could honestly respond that I had been empanelled before. Then, in chambers during the subsequent interview, I could recall entirely too much detail about the trial for which I was on the jury.

The defending lawyer immediately dismissed me — they don’t want anyone with any memory capacity at all! I absolutely agree with Dark_T above — the lawyers don’t want anyone who can actually remember any of the details, they only want people who will manage to stay awake for the final summations, and then decide on an emotional basis.

Frustrating to realize that our justice system, despite all it’s claims, is not really about finding the TRUTH.

]]> By: Dark_T_Zeratul http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/22/jurybreak/#comment-18154 Dark_T_Zeratul Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:51:32 +0000 http://alienlovespredator.com/?p=1466#comment-18154 I had a coworker who got dismissed because he was an engineering student. It was a murder trial and the defense was going for the emotional angle, and didn't want someone who would be thinking super logically. I had a coworker who got dismissed because he was an engineering student. It was a murder trial and the defense was going for the emotional angle, and didn’t want someone who would be thinking super logically.

]]> By: Munan http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/22/jurybreak/#comment-18109 Munan Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:45:43 +0000 http://alienlovespredator.com/?p=1466#comment-18109 Hmm, makes me not so unhappy with the fact that we don't have jury-jurisdiction in the Netherlands. Hmm, makes me not so unhappy with the fact that we don’t have jury-jurisdiction in the Netherlands.

]]> By: Neil (AoD) http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/22/jurybreak/#comment-18105 Neil (AoD) Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:01:22 +0000 http://alienlovespredator.com/?p=1466#comment-18105 Kinda pointless even having juries if they dont want a panel of people from a broad spektrum of society- seems likie they just want braindead numpties you cant think for themselves, and just decide which story to believe based on the evidence as itspresented/ skewed & twisted/ misinterpreted to suit the defences and/or procescutions needs. Kinda pointless even having juries if they dont want a panel of people from a broad spektrum of society- seems likie they just want braindead numpties you cant think for themselves, and just decide which story to believe based on the evidence as itspresented/ skewed & twisted/ misinterpreted to suit the defences and/or procescutions needs.

]]> By: Emily http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/22/jurybreak/#comment-18095 Emily Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:40:43 +0000 http://alienlovespredator.com/?p=1466#comment-18095 Yep -- comic artists are definitely on the short list of biased jurors. Yep — comic artists are definitely on the short list of biased jurors.

]]> By: stormagnet http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/22/jurybreak/#comment-18092 stormagnet Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:44:52 +0000 http://alienlovespredator.com/?p=1466#comment-18092 Dude, I get dismissed *every time* because I'm related to a judge. I don't know why they even bother to keep summoning me O_o Dude, I get dismissed *every time* because I’m related to a judge. I don’t know why they even bother to keep summoning me O_o

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