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was selected 16 years ago but never had to sit through a court case. Today was a different story.
Pretty much spent the hole day in a court room.
 
Not guilty. No good evidence. Bunch of hear say.
Found it odd that the cop lied during his interrogation stating he had video and finger prints and it was totally ok.
 
skep419 said:
Not guilty. No good evidence. Bunch of hear say.
Found it odd that the cop lied during his interrogation stating he had video and finger prints and it was totally ok.
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That alone would make me throw it out
 
I’ve got it coming up in January.

Last year I had to go but after sitting in a room with a bunch of other people, a clerk came in and told us the trial was being postponed due to new evidence. We did our duty by showing up so we were excused and didn’t have to come back
 
I've never been selected.

Kind of surprising I thought!
 
skep419 said:
Found it odd that the cop lied during his interrogation stating he had video and finger prints and it was totally ok.
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Right or wrong, the law allows them to do it. If you lie to police in the course of their investigation, you can be charged with a Class A misdemeanor in NY. Obstruction of Governmental Administration I believe they call it. There's a similar Federal law. Even if you believe something to be true, and it turns out it isn't, you can still be charged. So, never lie to the police, and always be very careful what you say to them.
 
Had it 4 times already, 2 times I sat in the jury room for 8 hours reading a book (some bastard ripped the last chapter out!) sent home. 3rd time I somehow got to go home after 2 hours and be on "30 minute phone stand by" for the rest of the week. Hell yeah, union paid week off! 4th time I was on the jury as a sitting alternate but the last day I was 'in' as someone was sick. 2 day trial, bored to tears. 30 minutes deliberating, guilty as hell. I guess the law says you can't push your wife down a flight of stairs.....? We actually had 3 wafflers on the jury who were going to vote not guilty, but our forman was a whip: "listen, you cannot interpret the law as a jury member, you must take the proof as delivered and make a conclusion based on law." So we deliberated for another 10 minutes and hung him.
 
I had never sat through a court case before. The biggest eye opener to me was the difference between the police officer and the judge. The judge must have said innocent until proven guilty 1000 times. Making it fair was his number one goal. the police officer on the other hand...........

small town mn county courthouse. My aunt was the bailiff and out of the 12 people that made up the jury I new almost half of them.
 
I was supposed to have jury duty this week . Luckily didn't have to show up. They treat the jurors as bad or worse than some of the criminals .
 
they did want to know everyone's life story before selecting the final 12. I guess it makes sense
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we were treated great. lots of appreciation from the judge.
 
I had to go in one time. Child molestation case. My nephew is a cop, my daughter in law worked for family services, and I had a cousin that spent time for child pornography. Yep, I got to go home.
 
I got to go twice in one year, what a treat.
The hardest part is having to listen to all the BS lawyers can come up with.
 
I guess i won't have to worry about it until I become a citizen
 
1 week at the Fed court house in LA. Patent infringement deal. I learnt a lot about bio-degradable plastics. Got to eat at some of my favorite LA places. Actually it paid well too. The jury duty pay and the subsistence they paid for me to be 3 hours from home and camped in a motel pretty much equaled the week of work I missed.
 
I forgot to go, wife was in the ER the Friday I was supposed to call, and Monday morning woke up with a migraine and didn’t call or go. Haven’t got a nasty gram yet, hopefully there hasn’t been a bench warrant issued.
 
I have gone in for jury duty 5 or 6 times, but was never selected to sit on a jury. Here, they call in 50 or 60 people and send 40 or so home. My wife was on a jury a few years ago. It was an armed robbery case. TONS of proof. Should have been open and shut. The guy got off because a female juror said she refused to vote guilty because since she would have had trouble picking a man out in a lineup, she could not believe that anybody else could.
 
The problem with juries in many places (Idaho is one) is that you can go broke sitting on one. No one pays your time. I forget what jury "pay" here is it barely covers transportation/ parking costs. Something like 13 bucks a day I think
 
No court room drama in my experience.
The judge knows everything that is going to happen before the trial begins.
Except maybe the verdict.
Disclosure.
He is just the moderator.
 
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I sat on one jury and was picked to be an alternate before deliberation. That was annoying as I never got to discuss what we all heard. They decided the same way I would have though.

I testify in court as an expert witness. The last trial, I was a defense witness and the plaintiff’s lawyer asked me to interpret a section of the International Fire Code. When I didn’t say what he wanted me to say, he asked me to read between the lines and find an interpretation that he wanted it to say. My response was “Well since you know so much about the Fire Code, why don’t you volunteer to write the next update to it?” The jury was rolling on the floor laughing at that. I thought that the judge was going to admonish me for that, but he didn’t. Maybe he was biting his tongue to keep from laughing himself. That judge was something else. The plaintiff testified in her deposition that she wouldn’t have sued the laundromat if the owner gave her his personal medical card information (though he told her he would pay her out-of-pocket expenses). The judge kept that statement, and other important facts out of the trial because the attorney said those things would prejudice the jury against his client. The trial was over her tripping on a cigarette bucket near the entrance door. She wasn’t looking where she was walking so she tripped over it. Skinned her shin, but her doctor claimed she herniated discs, etc. She lost - ha,ha!

I was seated on another jury and just before they started the trial, I got booted by the defense because my favorite TV show was CSI Miami. He thought I was going to demand to see DNA evidence? I was happy about getting the boot there. The case was over a step dad having sex for several years with his step daughter starting at age 13.

Our county pays a whopping $5 per day for service.
 
pishta said:
Had it 4 times already, 2 times I sat in the jury room for 8 hours reading a book (some bastard ripped the last chapter out!) sent home. 3rd time I somehow got to go home after 2 hours and be on "30 minute phone stand by" for the rest of the week. Hell yeah, union paid week off! 4th time I was on the jury as a sitting alternate but the last day I was 'in' as someone was sick. 2 day trial, bored to tears. 30 minutes deliberating, guilty as hell. I guess the law says you can't push your wife down a flight of stairs.....? We actually had 3 wafflers on the jury who were going to vote not guilty, but our forman was a whip: "listen, you cannot interpret the law as a jury member, you must take the proof as delivered and make a conclusion based on law." So we deliberated for another 10 minutes and hung him.
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That's what they'd like you to believe, but in every trial, there's always 2 things to be deliberated, the evidence, and the law itself.

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