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I Think The Judge Thought I Was An Abomination

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oldsmoboat said:
I don't have much respect for the system. I don't believe the DA's office cares if they get the right person. They'll take anyone. Have a crime? We need someone to blame it on so our numbers look good.
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I do not disagree with you but do think your life's experience could have been an asset on the jury panel.


CPA said:
I was always told that the jury nullification argument is the one to use if you ever want out of jury duty.
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Several years ago, I watched a small business owner tell the judge he simply did not have enough time (or interest) to take away from his business to participate in a jury.

Last summer, I was considered for a jury panel for a trial against a teen gang member of a group that robbed and killed a man in the loop of downtown Chicago (business working office area). I will admit that I was biased against the kid from the beginning since I saw him as an example of my fears for the streets of downtown Chicago. I was ready to convict him before the case even started. He looked like trouble in my eyes and if the policemen thought he was guilty, then so did I.

When they asked us to introduce ourselves, I answered with the information they were looking for and included the aspects of my life that have defined me and am most proud of. From enlisted military during operation desert storm to my engineering degree on the GI Bill, to having earned patents, to now starting a small business. Maybe I realized at the time but I think it was not until later that I fully realized I basically described myself as a hardworking person who has attained much through life by my own hard work and that this clashed significantly with the gang banger with no direction in life being prosecuted for murder. They let me go very quickly.

Before they let me go I saw the person the defense attorneys liked the most. A retired barber, poor, and black that was so silly as to be wearing his wife's sunglasses when questioned by the judge why he was wearing sunglasses in the courtroom.
 
well the letter of the law and how it plays out in court is WAY different.

Some dude walking by your snot-noses opens his soda and it sprays your 'autistic' genius in the eye then you go postal busting off 20 shots head and body with your Raven .22 should be tried fairly in court.

If you seriously have these kinds of problems in your life, you should be out and about rather than crying online.
 
chusteczka said:
I do not disagree with you but do think your life's experience could have been an asset on the jury panel.



Several years ago, I watched a small business owner tell the judge he simply did not have enough time (or interest) to take away from his business to participate in a jury.

Last summer, I was considered for a jury panel for a trial against a teen gang member of a group that robbed and killed a man in the loop of downtown Chicago (business working office area). I will admit that I was biased against the kid from the beginning since I saw him as an example of my fears for the streets of downtown Chicago. I was ready to convict him before the case even started. He looked like trouble in my eyes and if the policemen thought he was guilty, then so did I.

When they asked us to introduce ourselves, I answered with the information they were looking for and included the aspects of my life that have defined me and am most proud of. From enlisted military during operation desert storm to my engineering degree on the GI Bill, to having earned patents, to now starting a small business. Maybe I realized at the time but I think it was not until later that I fully realized I basically described myself as a hardworking person who has attained much through life by my own hard work and that this clashed significantly with the gang banger with no direction in life being prosecuted for murder. They let me go very quickly.

Before they let me go I saw the person the defense attorneys liked the most. A retired barber, poor, and black that was so silly as to be wearing his wife's sunglasses when questioned by the judge why he was wearing sunglasses in the courtroom.
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wow just wow...especially how you pegged poor and black. Perhaps he was trying to get out of jury duty as much as you too only played the insane angle rather than grunt genius.
 
alkemyst said:
dude, seriously...me worried about perfect grammar here is really low on my list of things to do in a day.

Fight the good fight, son...fight the good fight.
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It might help get your point across. I am sure I am not the only one that has no clue what your were trying to say.
 
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