Jury Duty

[Kenny_Stang]

I was selected on a jury for a child molestation case... the day the trial was to start they plead out, and we didn't actually go through the entire process.

It was emotionally draining though, just in what they were able to discuss in the jury picking portion, it was going to be one of those cases where you would be very emotionally involved. When the Judge called us back in to announce that the case had been plead out, she was crying... so I can imagine how difficult it was.

Overall it was a good experience, I would do it again. I think it's our civic duty to be part of the judicial system.

[DamonH]

yeah im not saying you are an idiot. Im saying that what you did was idiotic. Just lie and get out of it. Our judicial system is a joke, police are in place to raise revenue for cities, attorneys are there to blow each other and then go to lunch together afterward while you're life is up in the air, and judges are simply looking in the past at previous interpretations of the law by those before him and attempt to apply a constitution that is often outdated for said cases. Ftp and ftjs (judical system)

On the one hand I want to ask how exactly you think it will work at all if everyone had your attitude, but on the other you are probably the last person I'd want on the jury if I was ever falsely accused of a crime or something. It seems you have no sense of the bigger picture.

Yeah, you are right. I am an idiot for not lying to get out of it. I really didn't mind. Hell, I am 31 years old and this is the first time I have ever been summoned, not really a big deal or a big inconvenience to me. I found it very interesting. They pay $6 for the first day, and $40 per day after that. So, I got $86 for doing something I had to do. I will take it. Being salary and not getting docked is just an added bonus.

My thoughts exactly. I was summoned two weeks ago for a criminal case, but the defendant plead out before the jury was selected.

[Cannon88]

But did your heart tell you he was guilty?

Was there another reasonable suspect?

No on both. If there was another reasonable suspect it was not brought up. I have my ideas on who it could of been, but this case was for a particular individual who I had nothing shown to me that would make me think he did it.

[03trubluGT]

For some reason you never get picked being a cop....WTF is that.... Everyone is GUILTY!!!

I got a jury summons once.

It was for 8am and I got off work at 6am. It wasn't worth driving home and then fighting rush hour traffic back, so I stayed and took a work car (so I could find parking).

The clerk tried to chew my ass for showing up in uniform. I told her that I had just gotten off of work, and if she didn't like it, I'd leave. I was dismissed and never had to go back.

It sucks pulling a mid then going to court on "normal people time"....

[03trubluGT]

Lack of evidence is what it was. There was nothing that directly linked the defendant to the crime. The state failed to convince us that he was guilty.

But did your heart tell you he was guilty?

Was there another reasonable suspect?

[Cannon88]

For some reason you never get picked being a cop....WTF is that.... Everyone is GUILTY!!!

No one is guilty in Shawshank.

[Blame Canada]

The one time I was called I was working out of the country. Would like to do it some day to see how it really works in a true court room.

[houstondallas]

For some reason you never get picked being a cop....WTF is that.... Everyone is GUILTY!!!

[Cannon88]

You're the kind of person that I love to be on the jury in one of my trials. You actually grasp the concept that you have a "civic duty" in society and aren't just running through life trying to find the what will help only you.

To be honest, I felt privileged to be there.

[Gear_Jammer]

yeah im not saying you are an idiot. Im saying that what you did was idiotic. Just lie and get out of it. Our judicial system is a joke, police are in place to raise revenue for cities, attorneys are there to blow each other and then go to lunch together afterward while you're life is up in the air, and judges are simply looking in the past at previous interpretations of the law by those before him and attempt to apply a constitution that is often outdated for said cases. Ftp and ftjs (judical system)

You sir, have absolutely no clue how the legal system works based on all of that trash.

[Gear_Jammer]

Yeah, you are right. I am an idiot for not lying to get out of it. I really didn't mind. Hell, I am 31 years old and this is the first time I have ever been summoned, not really a big deal or a big inconvenience to me. I found it very interesting. They pay $6 for the first day, and $40 per day after that. So, I got $86 for doing something I had to do. I will take it. Being salary and not getting docked is just an added bonus.

You're the kind of person that I love to be on the jury in one of my trials. You actually grasp the concept that you have a "civic duty" in society and aren't just running through life trying to find the what will help only you.

[BUFFALOHALTOM]

yeah, you are right. I am an idiot for not lying to get out of it. I really didn't mind. Hell, i am 31 years old and this is the first time i have ever been summoned, not really a big deal or a big inconvenience to me. I found it very interesting. They pay $6 for the first day, and $40 per day after that. So, i got $86 for doing something i had to do. I will take it. Being salary and not getting docked is just an added bonus.

yeah im not saying you are an idiot. Im saying that what you did was idiotic. Just lie and get out of it. Our judicial system is a joke, police are in place to raise revenue for cities, attorneys are there to blow each other and then go to lunch together afterward while you're life is up in the air, and judges are simply looking in the past at previous interpretations of the law by those before him and attempt to apply a constitution that is often outdated for said cases. Ftp and ftjs (judical system)

[Cannon88]

thats cuz your dumb. You have plenty of opportunity to tell them that numerous things that would of got you out of it. Enjoy that couple bucks they pay ya

Yeah, you are right. I am an idiot for not lying to get out of it. I really didn't mind. Hell, I am 31 years old and this is the first time I have ever been summoned, not really a big deal or a big inconvenience to me. I found it very interesting. They pay $6 for the first day, and $40 per day after that. So, I got $86 for doing something I had to do. I will take it. Being salary and not getting docked is just an added bonus.

[BUFFALOHALTOM]

so i got called in for jury duty on monday. I had never been asked before, so i just figured i would be in and out. i actually got picked. trial started today. Can't officially speak of the trial yet, but it is pretty interesting so far.

Anyone else ever actually have to serve on a jury?

thats cuz your dumb. You have plenty of opportunity to tell them that numerous things that would of got you out of it. Enjoy that couple bucks they pay ya

[Cannon88]

What was the crucial piece o evidence that lead y'all to find him not guilty?

Lack of evidence is what it was. There was nothing that directly linked the defendant to the crime. The state failed to convince us that he was guilty.