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Racist Woman Sentenced to Jury Duty

jonks

jonks

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Cliffs: Prospective juror in a mob boss case in federal court in brooklyn is called in by the judge to answer for the responses given in her juror questionnaire. Racism (possibly fake) ensues, judge orders woman to return to court every day until he's satisfied.

My guess is he thinks she's bullshitting to get out of jury duty.

http://origin.nydailynews.com/blogs...judge-gives-racist-woman-indefinite-jury-duty

"This is an outrage, and so are you!" Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis told the woman, holding up her bile-filled juror questionnaire.

Juror No. 799, an Asian woman in her 20s who said she works in the garment industry, was up for jury duty in the death penalty trial of Bonanno crime boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano.

It didn't take long for her to start looking worse than the defendant. Asked to name three people she least admired, she wrote on her questionnaire: "African-Americans, Hispanics and Haitians."

When the judge asked why she answered the question that way, she replied, "You always hear about them in the news doing something." She also declared that cops are all lazy, claiming that they sound their sirens to bypass traffic jams.

Garaufis flipped forward several pages in her questionnaire.

He landed on the page where she had said she had a relative who was a member of the Chinese Ghost Shadows gang in the 1980s, convicted of murder and still in prison.

"Why didn't you put 'Asians' down also?" the judge asked sarcastically, referring to her list of least-liked people.

"Maybe I should have," she said.
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Ok, so maybe she just wanted off the case and put down some outrageous shit but it's still funny.

Also, a person very close to me was one of the 1000 prospective jurors.
 
Asian woman in the "garment industry".

I'd believe her racism is real, though it's probably exaggerated.
 
"She's coming back [today], Thursday and Friday - and until the future, when I am ready to dismiss her," Garaufis said.
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Am I missing something? A judge can order you to court indefinitely because he doesn't like you or your opinions?
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Most asians do think like that.
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Yes, but asians are also smart so she should have known putting I dont like black people in writing might cause an issue. But maybe she was hungry because she had chinese for lunch and 30 minutes later wanted more food. Or she had to get out of jury duty because she needed to pick up her car which was in the shop because she's a shitty driver. And man is she annoying when she's on her cell in the library.


I'm running out of stereotypes, help a brother out yo.
 
jonks said:
Yes, but asians are also smart so she should have known putting I dont like black people in writing might cause an issue. But maybe she was hungry because she had chinese for lunch and 30 minutes later wanted more food. Or she had to get out of jury duty because she needed to pick up her car which was in the shop because she's a shitty driver. And man is she annoying when she's on her cell in the library.


I'm running out of stereotypes, help a brother out yo.
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She was trying to duck out of a tip.
 
If he's prejudice against everyone then he cannot be racist since everyone would be equal in his book.
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The relative degrees of prejudice vary depending on who he's got a bone to pick with at the moment. And he obviously minds caucasians less than other ethnicities, because most of my best friends are caucasian, as well as my girlfriend.
 
So in USA you can be punished with indefinite detention for having opinions the people in charge don't like? Interesting.

Juror No. 799, an Asian woman in her 20s who said she works in the garment industry, was up for jury duty in the death penalty trial of Bonanno crime boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano.

It didn't take long for her to start looking worse than the defendant
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AznAnarchy99 said:
Most asians do think like that.
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The judge believes there's a good chance she's lying, he could have her thrown in jail for perjury. Correct me if I'm wrong but lying on the jury summons form they give you when you show up is perjury right? Her answers sound like the typical ones people who want to weasel out of jury duty give.
 
QueBert said:
The judge believes there's a good chance she's lying, he could have her thrown in jail for perjury. Correct me if I'm wrong but lying on the jury summons form they give you when you show up is perjury right? Her answers sound like the typical ones people who want to weasel out of jury duty give.
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How do you prove in a court of law someone is NOT racist? Aside from being a logical fallacy the current trend in politics says you dont have to do much at all to be proven a racist.
 
JohnOfSheffield said:
Kinda like the Daily Mail in the UK? The paper that everyone in the US takes for granted that whatever is printed is absolute unquestionable truth?
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It's funny how the Daily Mail's critics are so quick to claim that anything they print is absolutely unquestionably false.

They're actually probably closer to the truth than the people who believe everything the Daily Mail says, but both positions are ridiculous.
 
I remember when I got called for jury duty. Waited 8 hours for the fucking judge to dismiss me. I told them I wanted to be on the case because I thought it be fun. Boom dismissed. They said I could've stalled the trial and resulted in a hung jury.
 
QueBert said:
The judge believes there's a good chance she's lying, he could have her thrown in jail for perjury. Correct me if I'm wrong but lying on the jury summons form they give you when you show up is perjury right? Her answers sound like the typical ones people who want to weasel out of jury duty give.
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It's perjury to make material misrepresentations on a jury questionnaire, but the prosecutor would have to file charges, the judge can't just unilaterally decide you committed perjury and convict you. And lying to get off the jury by saying you hate minorities probably wouldn't count as a material misrepresentation in the case, it has to be about something relating to the defendant, a witness or that could affect the outcome of the case, for ex. that you knew one of the witnesses or had personal info about the allegations but didn't disclose it. Perjury charges are pretty rare mostly b/c it's difficult to prove. Here, even if convinced she lied and that the lies were material to the case, it's hard to prove someone isn't racist if they insist they are. But man, that would definitely need to be televised.
 
Forcing someone into jury duty just doesn't seem like a good choice.
Granted, MOST people don't really WANT to serve on a jury, but accept it as part of their "civic duty," and do so without much complaint.
Making someone serve who has already claimed to be racist seems like a potential hung jury, or worse...
 
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