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Via the smoking gun. The guy needed the help of his wife to write this.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0430091jury1.html

Such eloquence brings me tears to my eyes.

I wish that worked with most things in life, just telling people to feth off.

The thing is, of all the people to front off to, a person that can give you a night in jail more or less as he sees fit isn't high on the list. It was ballsy, and apparently it worked, but I play it clean with judges.

Ironically, of all the aspects of the legal and justice system that are flawed, the actual process of the jury trial is probably the part that works the best.

I have been called for jury duty three times over the last decade and a half and each time I was excused or excluded in the voir dire. When the defence in a case finds out that I work in corrections, they don't want any part of me on the panel.

I also knew a guy who got out of jury duty in a very creative way. When asked if there was any reason he could not serve, he stood up and anounced (falsley) that he was a member of the Klan and that since the defendant was black he could not give an unbiased verdict. He was excused by the judge and sent home.

TR

Here's the thing, though. If you're part of a trial, do you want this person to jury for you?

malfred wrote:Here's the thing, though. If you're part of a trial, do you want this person to jury for you?

Depends what side your own. Jury selection is an arcane art, to be sure, but a real loose cannon like that would probably be challenged by one of the lawyers. You only get three though in most jurisdictions, and sometimes you roll the dice.

When will i get to participate in jury duty? and how?

LunaHound wrote:
When will i get to participate in jury duty? and how?

It varies by country, in the US it's based off of random selection from voter registration rolls.

Same in Australia.

Random selection off voter roll.

I have mates who've been called up ten times in 15 years. I've been called up once - I was overseas and told them 'no'.
Not since.

I've been called up a bunch of times, but have only served once, and it was a ridiculous civil suit sparked by an ambulance-chasing lawyer who was taking advantage of an old couple who really didn't know what was going on. A couple of the others that I was excused from during the Voire Dire were low-level crack dealers, and everybody knows that getting those guys off the streets one or two at a time doesn't accomplish anything. I want to be on the jury of a serial killer. That would be interesting.

that was beautiful!

I personaly think he should have been let off on ignorance and mental state alone. If he writes that then he isn't gona realy care.

IRPurple wrote: that was beautiful!

I personaly think he should have been let off on ignorance and mental state alone. If he writes that then he isn't gona realy care.

I would agree if it were true, but plenty of other people would 'play crazy' to get off jury duty if it were that easy. Of course, I think that a couple of time I was eliminated because of my powerful aura of apathy. (I also had a hangover and fell asleep once.)

yeah, i did think of this, but this one is so blatantly slowed that it just made me laugh,

and thankfully i havent been sent for yet... but sadly theres plenty of time as i am still young, but not fully on the voters register here.

someone i know got called on there 18th birthday. how do you think it would feel to wake up thinking "woot im finaly 18!"(its a big thing here because the drinking age) and find a jury dity leter at your door. or on the table as there sign for mail sometimes.

The easiest way to get out of jury duty, that I have found, is to tell the judge that you cannot be a part of the jury because you think the guy is guilty. If they ask why you think that with no proof, say: 'He's here, ain't he?"

Given the amount of ingenuity everyone is devoting to getting out of jury service, perhaps it is a good thing that soon all trials will be decided by Frazzled and me.

I always found jury duty rather controversial. You hold a raffle, pick a dozen people and let them decide over the fate of a fellow man who may or may not be guilty. Judges have those fancy educations for a reason, not to diss the regular Joe Schmub but they shouldn't decide whether or not a person is guilty or not.

It's not a matter of education, it's a matter of where the power lies.

Instead of judge, jury, and executioner the government is only the first and last.

Kilkrazy wrote:Given the amount of ingenuity everyone is devoting to getting out of jury service, perhaps it is a good thing that soon all trials will be decided by Frazzled and me.

I promise, that once the crisis is over, that I will give back, these emergency powers, that you have bestowed upon me. Really.

Thats how I plan to get out of jury duty!

Hope you've got the legs to pull off that skirt.


Or are you trying to pull the 'udder' one ?

[I'll get my coat ...]