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By: Courthouse Steps Part 2 | Los Angeles Metblogs

Courthouse Steps Part 2 | Los Angeles Metblogs — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:45:44 +0000

[...] This is a follow up to last night’s post on jury duty. [...]

By: The 8 Track Kid

The 8 Track Kid — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:42:22 +0000

Jeremy – I just read the article, and I’m very sorry your family had to endure that. While I don’t think I was referring to the same woman (from what I understand the woman had not been previously married)I didn’t intend to make light of anyone’s tragedy.

By: panasonicyouth

panasonicyouth — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:35:15 +0000

Jesus…that was a disturbing read, Jeremy. Sorry to hear about that. :(

On a lighter note, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to do jury duty, but I’ve never been summoned. PLEASE PICK ME SOME DAY.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:37:47 +0000

It was my mom’s half-brother, and we weren’t that close, but it was a tough time.

This one has a bit more detail:
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/mar/09/entertainment/et-angelina9

By: RumorsDaily

RumorsDaily — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:34:04 +0000

Yikes. Horrible story:

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/11/13/news/state/11_12_0322_06_51.txt

Sorry Jeremy, that must have been awful.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:28:17 +0000

Deadly (no pun intended) serious, I think that antifreeze case was the woman who killed my uncle. Luckily, she was found guilty without you. She is also suspected of killing one of her children by jamming a broken pacifier nub down it’s throat to get a settlement from Gerber, and another husband of hers died mysteriously.

By: lisapotato

lisapotato — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:30:15 +0000

I’ve always wanted to yell “Off with your head!” in a courtroom. Good luck juroring!

By: David Markland

David Markland — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:17:23 +0000

Adding to what Matt said, regardless of what sort of case you may get if you’re seated on the jury, halfway through the trial just stand up and shout, “I’ve solved it!” and proceed to give a longwinded, expositional, convoluted explanation.
I’ll give you a dollar for every minute that goes by before a bailiff escorts you out.

By: Matt Mason

Matt Mason — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:01:39 +0000

Maybe you should play the old time detective part to the hilt with your clothing, hat, and dialogue. If you have a female judge, you can say “lishen, schweetheart ….”

By: frazgo

frazgo — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:19:04 +0000

Argh…the last duty I ever got called on was in District Court. What an abusive process that is. Fortunately my occupation at the kept me on automatic strike during voir dire and I only had one day.

The one time prior that I was on a voir dire the judge bumped me out. You know the part…”Do you know anyone involved”. Well I did, the pltf atty was slime (and later was disbarred for insurance fraud), the pltf doctor was always on our Special Investigation Alerts and the Def atty was actually a partner in a firm we used on occasion. That was the fastest excuse by a judge I had ever seen. I spent the rest of the week reading the Dune series.

My wife just got her subpoena for District court. Since she hates the drive downtown even on a weekend she’s planning on the Gold Line. It actually may wind up being a post as we plan on a dry run to see if it as good as we have seen trains in other cities.

There are a lot of interesting places to eat around the court house so Phillipes may have some competition once you get there.