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Skriven 2007-01-13 18:59:33 av Wesley Struebing (13518.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Shades of "12 Angry Men (1957)"
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On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:07:45 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
wrote:

>>> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:46:17 -0500, John W. Kennedy wrote
>(in article <1168699575.737006.8310@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> jmsa...@aol.com wrote:
>>> Anybody out
>>> there in the LA judicial system wanna help out a writer in need who's
>>> behind on deadlines...?
>> 
>> In my experience, all that is necessary to fail voir dire is to speak
>> in complete sentences and carefully to make nice distinctions; any
>> lawyer that's relying on his ability to confuse the jury (and there's
>> always at least one) will panic at the thought of a juror who is so
>> unreasonable as to employ reason in full public view. But unless you
>> are in a one-day/one-trial jurisdiction, that won't help.
>> 
>> On the other hand, do we really want a system of juries made up
>> entirely of people too stupid to get out of jury duty? I'm 58, and have
>> never served on a jury, and probably never will, but I have never
>> /tried/ to get out of it. If I have appeared too scrupulous to lawyers,
>> it has been because I /am/ scrupulous. (And after /that/ bit of
>> self-indulgence, I have to remind myself that the word "scrupulous" was
>> originally coined by Jesuits to describe persons who morbidly
>> over-analyze their actions in Confession....)<<
>
>Personally, I would love to serve on a jury -- and I'm one of those nasty, 
>educated people who can put a sentence together and employ reason -- but I 
>have never been called.  And I've been registered to vote everywhere I've 
>lived since the day I turned eighteen.  That's over twenty-six years, and my 
>name has NEVER come up.  Apparently, I not only can't get arrested; I also 
>can't get called for jury duty.  :-p

Well, I was born and raised in Illinois.  Lived there for 12 years
after age 18 (the first time), and never got called.  In 1978, I moved
to Nebraska and never served on a jury there, either. (but, then, I
was an election official, so I was exempt).  Moved back to Illinois in
1982 and stayed there again for 7 years, and again never served.

I moved to Colorado in 1989, and since then, I've served on a jury
almost every year.  Several civil cases, a couple of criminal cases at
the city level (including the one in which I was dismissed during voir
dire).  I've been called several times for county criminal cases, but
was never selected (had more jurors than cases, so I got to go home
early...).  I was lucky that I didn't get called to serve on the
Timothy McVey trial (Federal, obviously), but 18 years, now, and
called about 12 times...

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Wes Struebing

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