Beware of what you take to read,, gun books, hunting mags, etc LOL...
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Beware of what you take to read,, gun books, hunting mags, etc LOL...
that'll help get you out of it a lot of times, hehQuote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.man
Wearing short sleeves helps me get excused too, since I have sleeve tattoos on both arms
During the many years I was in LE I was summoned for jury duty several times in JeffCo and Park Co.
Many times I had to go in uniform as I was on duty. It didn't take long to get excused.
+1 on the books or mags, i didnt bring anything, lucky i didnt even make it to the interviews and was gone in about a hour
If in Denver, PM me and I can come visit, we can talk guns until I need to get to work on something!
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$21.95 + S&H
Just sayin'
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i got picked for jury duty once and had to ask them to remove me from the list due to the fact i was still on active duty-they kindly obliged
but needless to say i still got letters from them stating i came up on the list again-each time i just sent them a copy of my orders and dd214
i finaly went down and talked to somebody at JAG who straightened the whole mess out-and havent been picked since-and that was the late 80s
i guess they only have a small number of elligible people in our county
Got called last year, went down to the courthouse at the appointed time and filled out the juror questionnaire. The questionnaire was about child sexual predators. This is just f@#$ing great, I thought and I put down that I had absolutely no tolerance for child predators and that I had two small daughters. Pulled no punches.
So, we wait in the TV room, and wait...and finally get called. Head up to the courtroom only to be seated in the back of the spectator area-they had already seated a 13 person jury panel and had 12 additional spare jurors seated in the peanut gallery. Our group of 25 was just in case. And I was juror #14 of those 25....so I was good to go.
DA and defense attorneys are interviewing and dismissing potential jurors right and left, and before I know it, I'm seated in the juror's box....defense attorney has a lot of pointed questions for me based on my answers in the written questionnaire. Finally becomes obvious to me that the jurors who are getting dismissed are WOMEN, mainly young women.
So, we finally get our jury panel-10 men, 3 women over 45 years old. One of us is the alternate, but we won't find out until after all the testimony is heard.
So, next day-trial....guy about my age is the defendant-he's charged with chatting up a 13 year old girl on the internet and then setting up a meeting for sex. Evidence is 25 plus pages of graphic chat where he brings around this 13 year old to the idea of getting nailed by an older guy. Photos are exchanged, she sends 'G' rated photos and his are x-rated. He is in Colorado springs, she is in Highlands Ranch. Multiple chat sessions over a week period where he plies this girl and is really excited about taking her young 'cherry''. Multiple references to her age and her body and how it is developing. He makes a date with her-she will skip school and he will pick her up at a park behind her junior high school.
Law enforcement is involved at this point, and when he arrives at the pickup point, the girl is there, runs away and the man is arrested.
He had on him a digital camera, receipt from CO springs walmart for a box of condoms. He also had a room key for a local highlands ranch hotel, for 1/2 a day stay.
His defense was that 'the cops pointed guns at me' and 'I thought it was just a game and that she was of legal age'
The jury panel was given instructions on the charges and how to weigh the evidence. We were retired to the jury room and spent a few minutes choosing a foreman. Then it was time to go home.
I didn't sleep much that night-I was pretty damn sure that he was guilty, but was worried about the possibility that somehow this was all a misunderstanding and that the guy was just playing a game.
By morning, I had come to my senses and was back on the 'guilty' track. We began deliberating and it was 11 to 1 in favor of guilty. The lone standout was a 19 year old male Hasidic Jew. His contention was that his religion specified that only God could judge a man guilty, unless there were three or more witnesses. He didn't consider the police witnesses.
After having the three women brow-beat him for a good 20-30 minutes, I finally got thru to him: "check out this transcript of his chat sessions over a week plus, did he dispute anything? no. Did he claim it was his neighbor/wife/kid who chatted with this girl? no. Did he say at any time that is was a game? no" The twelve of us in this room are all witnesses to his chat-he never denied writing any of these words, and he has had over a year to prepare his defense. Therefore, we are all witnesses to the crimes he committed and was prepared to commit.
After that, we took another tally and it was 12-0 in favor of a guilty verdict. Returned the verdict after less than five hours of deliberations.
All in all it was a good experience-seeing the justice system in action, and the accused had a fair trial and a jury of his peers (middle aged guys and gals) who carefully considered the evidence without prejudice.
That's all i know....have a good one
Robert