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After 2 years on the county grand jury, I'm done.

highland145

highland145

Lifer
Finally. 1 session/month earning $20 per. That's somewhere south of $4/hr to get the details on shitty humans.

I've learned that if you get on the wrong side of the law, they will get you. If you're a jerk while doing it, doubly so.

Many of the criminals are stupid. Dangerous for sure but stupid.

Meth is a hell of a drug. You can shake and bake while riding down the road.

People do shitty things to each other.

And other stuff that not's coming to mind, ATM.

The shitty human of the day story: 2013, baby daddy beats the 2 month old. To hide it, he and baby momma check into a hotel for 2 days (no idea why). Then they finally take the kid to the ER. 10 broken bones and skull fractures.

The upside, he and the momma will be getting 20 to life and the kid has recovered. Don't know about long term but the investigator said the kid was running around his office last week.:thumbsup:

Turns out baby daddy wasn't really the daddy. Momma was screwing someone else too.
 
highland145 said:
Finally. 1 session/month earning $20 per. That's somewhere south of $4/hr to get the details on shitty humans.

I've learned that if you get on the wrong side of the law, they will get you. If you're a jerk while doing it, doubly so.

Many of the criminals are stupid. Dangerous for sure but stupid.

Meth is a hell of a drug. You can shake and bake while riding down the road.

People do shitty things to each other.

And other stuff that not's coming to mind, ATM.

The shitty human of the day story: 2013, baby daddy beats the 2 month old. To hide it, he and baby momma check into a hotel for 2 days (no idea why). Then they finally take the kid to the ER. 10 broken bones and skull fractures.

The upside, he and the momma will be getting 20 to life and the kid has recovered. Don't know about long term but the investigator said the kid was running around his office last week.:thumbsup:

Turns out baby daddy wasn't really the daddy. Momma was screwing someone else too.
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Lovely. People like that should burn in hell.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
I don't think you need a grand jury to come to the conclusion that people are scum.
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Surly not but you don't get the details on the nightly news. Hell, you don't hear about 99% of it. The sheriff's dept alone has 70K+ calls per year (could be loud music or a murder) with 140K people in the county. Plus the 5 or 6 other jurisdictions in the county.
boomhower said:
Mobile meth on wheels.
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This. Had one where the driver turns around on a license check so, of course, they get chased down. The wife is cooking in the passenger seat in a coke bottle. 2 small kids in the back.
 
highland145 said:
Finally. 1 session/month earning $20 per. That's somewhere south of $4/hr to get the details on shitty humans.

Many of the criminals are stupid. Dangerous for sure but stupid...
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Growing up, I never gave much thought to crime or criminals.

After I got drafted (69), Army sent me through their Military Police Academy.

One of the themes there was that most criminals are stupid and lazy...

In retrospect, I think that they got that one right.

Congrats on no longer having to do grand jury duty!
Uno
 
We had 2 separate ones where the bad guy dropped his ID at the scene.

Had a guy set his house own fire and stood by watching. When the cops approached him, he took a "kung fu" style stance. Pepper spray trumps kung fu stances.

One of my customers, a small mild mannered guy, killed his GF because she rolled over on him for selling meth.

Walmart shoplifting alone had 10+ per session so those were 3rd offense charges.

South American gentleman flips out at a quick shop. The deputy pulls up and starts to get out, the guy runs over and tries to attack him with a machete. It didn't end well for the perp.

Lots of drugs, CDVs, criminal sexual conduct towards children, financial transaction fraud, DUI/DUS, etc, etc.
 
I always wanted to be on a jury for a criminal trial. Grand Jury though? No thanks. That sounds painful. =(

Congrats on not having to deal with the scum of the Earth (outside of ATOT, that is) anymore though.
 
Two years? Any of that voluntary? Are you saying that anyone that gets selected for GJ duty in your county will be on the hook for two years? I guess I had no idea the level of commitment that entailed.

I got selected for a case (regular jury duty, not GJ) that ran for 3 1/2 months, 4 days a week and I was told at the end that you will more than likely never hear from us again. They said that I had served enough for my lifetime.
 
fleshconsumed said:
2 years? Why so long? Isn't it typically 6 months max?
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boomerang said:
Two years? Any of that voluntary? Are you saying that anyone that gets selected for GJ duty in your county will be on the hook for two years? I guess I had no idea the level of commitment that entailed.

I got selected for a case (regular jury duty, not GJ) that ran for 3 1/2 months, 4 days a week and I was told at the end that you will more than likely never hear from us again. They said that I had served enough for my lifetime.
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They select 12 new ones for the 1st year and 6 of those 12 get carried over so there's a few that have a clue with the next GJ. 18 total jurors. Involuntary.

I get a 3 year pass on anything else in the county....:\

Jeeebus said:
Does not compute. According to the other thread, those shoplifters are heroes and statues should be erected in their honor.
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Some things will be erected but I don't thing it's statues.😀

Stunning that people load up a TV and just push it out the front door. Or take it to the return counter and claim they have no receipt. Also stunning the number of security cameras walmart has. They are watching you.
 
boomerang said:
There's some logic to that. Did you meet on a fixed schedule, once a month or something?
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Yep, once/month. On the low side ~60 cases, 260 on the high side. That makes for a long day. They schedule 1.5 minutes per for us to read the indictment and the detective to read the facts.
 
You have been exposed to a whole other side of life that most of us would prefer not to see.

Did it effect your sleep hearing some of the cases? The ones involving kids would bother me.
 
highland145 said:
Yep, once/month. On the low side ~60 cases, 260 on the high side. That makes for a long day. They schedule 1.5 minutes per for us to read the indictment and the detective to read the facts.
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How the hell can you decide anything after knowing the case for just 1.5 minutes? This just boggles my mind.
 
Stopsignhank said:
The ones involving kids would bother me.
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One of the posters in this thread spoke of interest in serving on a criminal trial. Hmm, blood, gore, guts and 27 8x10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one could be the kind of thing to keep you awake at night.
 
fleshconsumed said:
How the hell can you decide anything after knowing the case for just 1.5 minutes? This just boggles my mind.
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All they're deciding is if the particulars of the case warrant it going to trial. Based on the sheer number of cases that goes through a prosecutors office, there is no other way to really deal with it.
 
Stopsignhank said:
You have been exposed to a whole other side of life that most of us would prefer not to see.

Did it effect your sleep hearing some of the cases? The ones involving kids would bother me.
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We could get more details/pics but who would want to. The kid with the broken bones was one of the worst and I probably won't be forgetting that too soon. Or the boyfriend that beat the 12 y.o. with a golf club shaft that had been heated in a fire. Or the 60 y.o. grandfather that bought see-through panties for his 7 and 10 y.o. granddaughters (imagine the worst).

Just thankful I've got the life/family that I do.
fleshconsumed said:
How the hell can you decide anything after knowing the case for just 1.5 minutes? This just boggles my mind.
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Most are simple. Ms Jones was swerving, driving down the road. She failed the field tests and blew a .22 BAC. Since she didn't plead out, we get to send it to trial.

boomerang said:
One of the posters in this thread spoke of interest in serving on a criminal trial. Hmm, blood, gore, guts and 27 8x10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one could be the kind of thing to keep you awake at night.
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QFT. Can you imagine the Jodi Arias trial pics.
 
highland145 said:
They select 12 new ones for the 1st year and 6 of those 12 get carried over so there's a few that have a clue with the next GJ. 18 total jurors. Involuntary.

I get a 3 year pass on anything else in the county....:\
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wait.. there's only ONE grand jury in your county?!

or are there like one for each day but each grand jury only serves 1day/month?
so like ~20 grand juries.

20 x 18people = 360 drafted for grand juries at the beginning of the year?
 
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