Jury Duty next month - Prayer Request

[Esther]

I sat on a rape case. A black man was accused of raping a white girl. He claimed it was consensual. She was a foster child that got messed up in the system.

We convicted him. Interesting enough we didn't know before we convicted him that he had a prior criminal record. But we were given that information for the sentencing portion.

The defense attorney was mad we gave him 25 years I think it was, anyway, he said it was the same thing that the prosecuting attorney had offered him to not go to trial.

Was not a pleasant case.

[John Atkinson]

Originally Posted by CC1

I had imagined that television and movies had desensitized me to some degree or at least prepared me for some of what would go on but the night after we had to view the crime scene photos of this 22 year old young man with four gunshot wounds I had a lot of trouble sleeping.

I remember thinking "well at least the gruesome part is over!" only to show up in the court the next day to hear the coronor's testimony and view the autopsy photos!!!!

Originally Posted by Esther

I sat on a rape case. A black man was accused of raping a white girl. He claimed it was consensual. She was a foster child that got messed up in the system.

We convicted him. Interesting enough we didn't know before we convicted him that he had a prior criminal record. But we were given that information for the sentencing portion.

The defense attorney was mad we gave him 25 years I think it was, anyway, he said it was the same thing that the prosecuting attorney had offered him to not go to trial.

Was not a pleasant case.

Here's to hoping for a nice simple defendant x suing plaintiff y because of a minor fender bender......

[John Atkinson]

I did end up going in but didn't get selected, I wouldn't have made a good juror for this case.

It was a civil case where the plaintiff was suing the owner of a bar where he got shot in the chest and arm during a bar fight. There was a list of around 20 different things he was using to try and prove it was the bars fault that he got shot.

The bar in question has a reputation of being an establishment with a violent clientele. The kind of place where when you walk in they ask you if you are carrying a gun and if you say no they offer you one.

Anyhow, I sat around and when I got called in for the Voire Dire, the first question the plaintiff's attorney asked me "Do you have any personal feelings about this case?"

I just told him straight up, "Well, you choose to go into a place like Sully's (the bar), you get what you get."

Ended up basically exchanging a few pleasantries and answering a few general questions for form's sake and then I went home.

[KWSS1976]

Too funny..LOL ROTF

The bar in question has a reputation of being an establishment with a violent clientele. The kind of place where when you walk in they ask you if you are carrying a gun and if you say no they offer you one