Life Jury Duty

CaliforniaChief · 11-23-2013, 06:43 PM

I just finished serving on a jury on a case that took a week to complete. I have to say that while it throws a definite curve at the schedule, it was an honor to serve and be a part of a really thoughtful group of people who took our job very seriously.

What experiences have you all had on a jury?

**TribalElder** · 11-23-2013, 06:48 PM

It sucks and pays shit

Luckily work still paid me

It was like

**DaFace** · 11-23-2013, 06:49 PM

I've only had to report once, and the defendant didn't show up. So my experience was sitting in a room for an hour, watching a video about how awesome it is to serve, and going home.

Cool that you got on a "real" case. I'll never say that I want that to happen to me, but I'm sure it's an enlightening experience.

CaliforniaChief · 11-23-2013, 06:53 PM

No lives were lost fortunately, it was a meth sales case. It took the group about 7 hours to reach a unanimous verdict. I thought it was pretty straight forward, but people process things differently.

GloryDayz · 11-23-2013, 06:56 PM

I told them I was more the, "If he wasn't guilty they wouldn't have arrested him" type instead of the "innocent until proven guilty" type, and was told I could be held in contempt.

The good news is, I wasn't selected for some reason...

The funny thing is, I was mostly telling the truth! I was in downtown Jackson county, so there's a 90+% chance they're all guilty..

**TribalElder** · 11-23-2013, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by GloryDayz

I told them I was more the, "If he wasn't guilty they wouldn't have arrested him" type instead of the "innocent until proven guilty" type, and was told I could be held in contempt.

The good news is, I wasn't selected for some reason...

The funny thing is, I was mostly telling the truth! I was in downtown Jackson county, so there's a 90+% chance they're all guilty..

Winner. I know to do that now. At the time I didn't know to do shit like this to skew your chance of being selected from the pool.

**Saulbadguy** · 11-23-2013, 07:00 PM

Murder, 20 year old cold case. It was pretty interesting.

**The Franchise** · 11-23-2013, 07:03 PM

I sat on a murder case where a 21 year old city councilman was shot in the back of the head.

**Rain Man** · 11-23-2013, 07:06 PM

I posted about it, but I was on a child neglect jury where three kids were left alone and two of them wandered into traffic. They ended up taking the kids away from the parents, and they had four more kids. Those kids were then taken away because they were up to six years old and had never been toilet-trained or taught to speak. The second case made the national news.

**bevischief** · 11-23-2013, 08:14 PM

I have posted my Federal jury experience. It lasted a week.

Big Chief Homer · 11-23-2013, 09:42 PM

I was on a Murder case this past summer. Man shot his wife. After we broke for lunch on the first day, he changed his plea to guilty and we were sent home shortly after.

MOhillbilly · 11-23-2013, 09:49 PM

You know the deal.

CaliforniaChief · 11-23-2013, 09:51 PM

Yeah I've heard of cases where the jury's deliberated for a day or two or even more and the bailiff walks in and tells the jurors that it's over and thanks them for their work.

The craziest one I ever heard was from a friend of mine who had served on a murder case where the jury was absolutely deadlocked. The judge had sent them back repeatedly to deliberate and finally the foreman gave up and was literally on his way to hit the buzzer to surrender when the bailiff walked in and told them that the defendant had pleaded guilty and they could go home. Dumb bastard caved just 5 minutes too quickly.

**notorious** · 11-23-2013, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief

Yeah I've heard of cases where the jury's deliberated for a day or two or even more and the bailiff walks in and tells the jurors that it's over and thanks them for their work.

The craziest one I ever heard was from a friend of mine who had served on a murder case where the jury was absolutely deadlocked. The judge had sent them back repeatedly to deliberate and finally the foreman gave up and was literally on his way to hit the buzzer to surrender when the bailiff walked in and told them that the defendant had pleaded guilty and they could go home. Dumb bastard caved just 5 minutes too quickly.

If I was voting guilty I would have slapped the not-guilty dumbasses upside the head.

**Donger** · 11-23-2013, 11:49 PM

I came close to making the jury once on a child rapist case. I really wanted to be on the jury, but I got into an argument with the idiot court-appointed defense attorney during the selection/question phase and the bitch kicked me out.

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CaliforniaChief #RIPAce Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: So Cal Casino cash: $10515899	No lives were lost fortunately, it was a meth sales case. It took the group about 7 hours to reach a unanimous verdict. I thought it was pretty straight forward, but people process things differently.
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11-23-2013, 09:51 PM	#13
CaliforniaChief #RIPAce Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: So Cal Casino cash: $10515899	Yeah I've heard of cases where the jury's deliberated for a day or two or even more and the bailiff walks in and tells the jurors that it's over and thanks them for their work. The craziest one I ever heard was from a friend of mine who had served on a murder case where the jury was absolutely deadlocked. The judge had sent them back repeatedly to deliberate and finally the foreman gave up and was literally on his way to hit the buzzer to surrender when the bailiff walked in and told them that the defendant had pleaded guilty and they could go home. Dumb bastard caved just 5 minutes too quickly.
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