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Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts (Post 6744442)

Your job will pay your salary while you're on duty right?

Yes....yes they do.

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Originally Posted by mlyonsd (Post 6744459)

Wow. I can't wait to hear some details after the trial is over.

Once it's over....everyone will.

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Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief (Post 6744753)

Pest did you disclose that you are a closet drafturbator?

****! I knew I forgot to mention something.

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Originally Posted by banyon (Post 6744830)

Make certain you leave out any further details.

Don't discuss the case any further, particularly where there will be a permanent internet record of your discussion. You never know who is reading or what Google spider might pick up a key word or phrase.

You don't want to wind up with a contempt citation to add to your jury duty.

After the case is done, everything is fair game.

Oh....I definitely know that. Nothing else will be said until this is all over with.

Now there's a conundrum... we have a right to be tried by a jury of our peers, but our peers don't want to sit on the jury.

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs (Post 6744969)

Wonder if there are ever hot chicks on jury duty.

You should hit on them, try to hook up.

They can't escape!

"Sleep with me or I recommend the death penalty for that guy."

"Y'know, with me you've already got a hung jury."

"Hey, Juror #9. I'm Juror #7. Do you want to make Juror #6 afraid of me?"

Well....just in case anyone cares.....I'll show you a couple of the articles about the trial. I was on the second defendant's trial......the guy named Combs.

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A Suisun City man arrested following the fatal 2008 shooting of young Fairfield City Councilman Matt Garcia was found guilty of murder Thursday in Solano County Superior Court.

After roughly 10 hours of deliberation, a 10-man, two-woman jury on Thursday afternoon found 46-year-old Gene Allen Combs guilty of second-degree murder for his role in the Garcia slaying.

Superior Court Judge Robert S. Bowers subsequently set 8:30 a.m. July 19 for judgment and sentencing in the matter. Combs faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in state prison.

In a separate trial last week, Combs' former co-defendant, 33-year-old Henry Don Williams of Fairfield, was found guilty of first-degree murder with personal use of a firearm in the councilman's Labor Day death. Believed to have been the triggerman, Williams faces a maximum sentence of 50 years to life in prison.

After the verdict was read, Garcia's mother, Teresa Courtemanche, said she felt that courts had fulfilled their mission.

"We continue to believe that the justice system works," she said. "We thank the jury for doing everything they had to do to reach their verdict."

Stepfather Ray Courtemanche said the slain councilman's family and friends would continue working to make Fairfield the kind of town Matt Garcia believed in.

"He embodied stepping up to the plate and it's important for us to be representative of the city we believe in, and that's Fairfield," Ray Courtemanche said. "Fairfield first, guaranteed."

Teresa Courtemanche said the young councilman's dream for his community would be fulfilled.

"We want to continue doing what Matt was doing -- supporting our youth, stopping crime and strengthening our community," she said.

The councilman's father, Matt Garcia Sr., said he, too, was gratified by the jury's verdict.

"I'm feeling really good about the decision. Justice has prevailed," he said. "I just hope we'll be able to get on with our lives again."

Testimony offered during the back-to-back murder trials of Williams and Combs indicated that Matt Garcia was, unwittingly, in the wrong place at the wrong time when the two defendants went hunting for a Cordelia drug dealer who cheated Combs in a $50 methamphetamine buy.

The pair were being driven down Silverado Drive in Cordelia by Williams' pregnant girlfriend, Nicole Stewart, the evening of Sept. 1, 2008, when Garcia drove past them in his Cadillac CTS. Williams apparently mistook Garcia's car for that of the neighborhood drug dealer. According to testimony, he told Stewart to stop, then climbed out of his car and began firing a semi-automatic .22-caliber pistol into the darkness.

At least eight shots were fired and one struck Garcia as he stood on the sidewalk talking to a friend. He later died in a Walnut Creek medical center.

Combs admitted telephoning the drug dealer after the shooting and stating, "The bullets down the street were meant for you."

I have jury duty today and I spilled my god damn coffee all over myself right when I got here.

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Originally Posted by Buck (Post 9850345)

I have jury duty today and I spilled my god damn coffee all over myself right when I got here.

Be sure to get a pretzel burger from that nice little pub across the street.

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Originally Posted by Buck (Post 9850345)

I have jury duty today and I spilled my god damn coffee all over myself right when I got here.

Mention the spill and blame it on somebody who's the same ethnicity as the defendant.

My "friend" has been doing Federal Grand Jury Duty that was suppose to end after 18 months last week but they extended it for another 6 months so everyone needs to stop crying about doing Jury Duty.

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Originally Posted by sd4chiefs (Post 9850443)

My "friend" has been doing Federal Grand Jury Duty that was suppose to end after 18 months last week but they extended it for another 6 months so everyone needs to stop crying about doing Jury Duty.

Holy God. How can they do that?

Ask them how long this will take. The radio waves are interfering with your thought process.

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Originally Posted by Ugly Duck (Post 6748475)

Now there's a conundrum... we have a right to be tried by a jury of our peers, but our peers don't want to sit on the jury.

I've actually always wanted to be on a jury, but never been called. I think it would be a great way to help out others, and a lot of fun. If there was a place to sign up I would volunteer.

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Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake (Post 9850563)

I've actually always wanted to be on a jury, but never been called. I think it would be a great way to help out others, and a lot of fun. If there was a place to sign up I would volunteer.

It's generally boring as shit and/or depressing.

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Originally Posted by frazod (Post 9850573)

It's generally boring as shit and/or depressing.

This.

You're either going to get a case that is boring as ****......or you'll get one that will **** with you.

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Originally Posted by Pestilence (Post 9850582)

This.

You're either going to get a case that is boring as ****......or you'll get one that will **** with you.

I despised being a court reporter and working criminal in general. The minor stuff was just boring. But the bigger cases dealing with really bad things were mostly boring, punctuated by times of pure awfulness. You've got the accused, the accused's family members, the victim, the victim's family members, all of them with their lives in turmoil endlessly pissing and moaning. And multiply the suck factor by 1,000 if you're dealing with children. Just horrible.

You need to be able to tune out human suffering or thrive on it. I couldn't do either.

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Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop (Post 9850511)

Ask them how long this will take. The radio waves are interfering with your thought process.

I usually start spanking it when they ask me my name. Gets me outta there pretty quick.

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Originally Posted by frazod (Post 9850619)

I don't think that I'd ever have to sit on a trial for anything to do with a child. I'd easily tell them that I have 3 kids and that anyone who ****s with kids needs to fry. Pretty sure I'd get off on that one.

The worst thing about jury duty in my mind? Sitting in a closed room with 11 other people....some of them being complete ****ing idiots.

Only got 1 thing to say, beyond a reasonable doubt DOES NOT mean beyond a shadow of doubt!

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Originally Posted by sd4chiefs (Post 9850443)

My "friend" has been doing Federal Grand Jury Duty that was suppose to end after 18 months last week but they extended it for another 6 months so everyone needs to stop crying about doing Jury Duty.

Yeah I don't think so. I think I would send them a picture of my ass and a tube of lipstick and let them figure it out. 2 YEARS of that crap, nope.

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Originally Posted by frazod (Post 9850573)

It's generally boring as shit and/or depressing.

Yes it is. Picture the worst teacher you have ever had in the boring department, take that times three and you're getting close.

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Originally Posted by J Diddy (Post 9850624)

I usually start spanking it when they ask me my name. Gets me outta there pretty quick.

Instant section 8.

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Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop (Post 9851219)

Instant section 8.

Subsidized housing?