Jury Duty Today

[admin]

Juror #3315 reporting for duty and I say hang him!
I'm actually posting from the Jury assembly room. I get paid $15 a day for this. I'm thinking they should recruit the homeless people I pass everyday. They would appreciate the $15 much more than I would. I need to make that about every 10 minutes, not each day.

 

[admin]

Hottie Alert! Ok, maybe this isn't so bad afterall.

 

[rickpal14]

Here's to hoping nobody wants you as their "peer"!!!!!!!!! :nana:

 

[admin]

Ha ha! Funny thing that Greg and I talked about that yesterday. He said that I should tell them that I am no peer of a criminal. I guess he forgot one of the stories I told him. Actually, that may get me excused.

 

[maduroman]

tell em Jesus himself could not make you vote for aquital...

 

[ace57]

Kevins into MONEY now. Go buy a new cob for $10 and $5 for baccy. :rofl:

 

[hobie1dog]

Exactly, only the un-employed should have to serve jury duty, leave the employed to do their jobs...it's all about the money....like the prisons.....74 Billion dollar industry with 30% of the inmates on non-violent charges and a huge amount of them just because they are immigrants...the History Channel just had a show on about it last night.

 

[cortezattic]

a huge amount of them [prisoners] just because they are immigrants.

Really? I had no idea that INS was locking 'em up instead of deporting them.

 

[hobie1dog]

Yep, the State of Utah approached a private company to build prisons, which they did, and then they spent 37 million last year lobbying so that they could jail immigrants to help fill the prisons they built.

 

[hobie1dog]

anyway, Kevin.....you know a obligatory picture of the hottie is needed....you know, a simple cell phone pic will do. :wink:

 

[lonestar]

a simple cell phone pic will do.

Hell no, Kevin will have her up in Pipe Babes by next week.

He works quick.

 

[uberam3rica]

my mom had jury duty and they paid her minimum wage per hour, plus they paid for her gas. so it basicly was like being at work. she made the same amount of money

 

[admin]

Sat around for 3 hours, got dismissed because the air-conditioning and the plumbing broke. The judge said we can't have a trial where the jury is hot and sweaty and can't go to the bathroom. (Somebody up there must like me.) Collected my $15 cash and it paid for half of my dry cleaning. Now I can salvage the rest of the day. Yea!
I was the foreman on a murder trial about 6 - 7 years back and that was an amazing experience, but that story is for another day.

 

[judcole]

I have been called for jury duty several times, but haven't served yet. I consider it one of the things that goes along with being a good citizen - inconvenient, but important. ::

 

[pstlpkr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNs6yZ78Ik4&feature=related

 

[scotrob]

would like to hear the murder jury story Kevin; it must be an interesting experience to sit on a jury in a country that still exercises capital punishment for murder (unless your state is one of the ones which does not?)

 

[cyndi]

I had jury duty a couple months back and just sat in a room for 5 days surfing the Internet. Thank God for wi-fi! The judge came in and told us on the last day that every single case took a plea that week once they realized it was down to the wire of a jury trial. There are worse ways to spend a day...

 

[schmitzbitz]

I can't decide if I am fortunate to be discluded from jury duty or not. While on the one hand I feel it is my civic responsibility to partake, as a business owner it can be hard for me to get away for more than a day or two.

Fortunately, as the business I own deals with legal issues, I am considered partisan and will never have to deal with that internal knundrum, leaving me to ponder more important imponderables, such as the hydrodynamic qualities of Italian briar vs. Greek.

 

[pstlpkr]

I have served twice. First was local, and the second was Federal Court.

Have you seen those little signs in Walmart that instruct the customer to ask for assistance for items on the top shelf?
Yup!

I was part of that decision. My contribution to society. :nana:

Some idiot lady tried to get a "large" vacuum cleaner from the top shelf and it fell on her...

She wanted something North of $100K.

She lost her case. After 15 minutes of intense deliberation; we rendered our decision. :D

Most of that time was spent deciding on what form the ballot would take.

But, we did instruct Walmart to affix the afore mentioned sign to their top shelves.

 

[philip]

I have had jury duty twice, too, but never called to a jury. Just endless waiting.