Peter Thiel was recently called up for jury duty

[norseamd]

Thoughts?

 

[JSt0rm]

trump grabs pussy and pays millions to be not guilty. Probably worth it.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Thoughts?

Random Twitter posts by former Gawker writers with chips on their shoulders don't constitute real news.

 

[Double Trouble]

What am I missing, what's interesting about that random twitter blabbering?

 

[MajinCry]

Peter Thiel is one of Trump's home boys now, right?

Honestly, I think swamp water at least has some minerals in it. Trump's drained the swamp in favour of septic tank.

 

[superstition]

Peter Thiel is one of Trump's home boys now, right?

When you're rich you don't worry about Mike Pence, Rick Santorum, Michelle Bachmann, and a Scalia in every courthouse.

As for defending against sexual harassment claims... I knew a guy who owned a hotel and was sued by a woman he had hired for sexual harassment. The judge threw out the case when he showed up with his boyfriend.

 

[norseamd]

When you're rich you don't worry about Mike Pence, Rick Santorum, Michelle Bachmann, and a Scalia in every courthouse.

As for defending against sexual harassment claims... I knew a guy who owned a hotel and was sued by a woman he had hired for sexual harassment. The judge threw out the case when he showed up with his boyfriend.

That on its own doesnt prove anything. Misconduct by judge.

 

[interchange]

I was called for jury duty and sat on a panel once. The case was involving someone with mental illness dying. The way they did jury selection was to give everyone in the panel a placard and to ask to the group if a question applied to them before following-up individually with potential jurors. It got to the point where they lawyers started off as "Does anyone other than Dr. interchange have experience with ... ?"

Aside from that anecdote, the actual jurors they selected were the people who were the absolute most bland, impressionable, inexperienced balls of clay they could find. I have only anecdotal experience, but it makes sense to me that lawyers want jurors they can convince of things -- not jurors who show aptitude for finding truth in a trough of misleading information.

More on topic: There is no way in hell I think Peter Thiel would ever be selected for a jury. It would have been more cost-effective (I'm not saying right) to grant his request for exclusion.