Jury Duty

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71dusterman

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Anyone else been there. Just finished 2 1/2 weeks of a second degree murder trial. Never thought I would be involved in a trial let alone a murder trial. It was not physically hard but definitely mentally hard. In this incident the guy stabbed his esstranged girlfriend 14 times and we had to view all the photo evidence of the wounds and the crime scene. Seeing things happen on tv is one thing but to see this in court was something else. I don't know how police, ambulance and others handle it but I give them credit for being able to survive it after any occurrence they are involved in. My hats off to these people who do the job that I don't know how they can continue on. In this instance the members of our jury found the defendant guilty of second degree murder and it will not be easy to put what we went thru behind us but I guess it will be one day at a time.
 
a12bee said:
Yep, a lot of ppl have to witness things nobody should ever have to see. :(
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Just ask Aapril...[smilie=2::bwuhaha:


Seriously, most people try to get out of jury duty here, I was called, but not picked for the jury. I would like to experience it. I applaud you for going thru with it!:clap:
 
yup, "the people smart enough to get out of jury duty are the ones we need there"

I guess it's like a service to your country or something so, Thanks Man.
 
About a year and a half ago, I received a jury duty summons. Reported on the day and was sent to a courtroom for jury selection. Trial was for Grand Theft-tractor. I made it through the first 2 rounds of eliminations, and had to come back the next day for more. When the judge asked "Anybody have family who work for the police?" I raised my hand.
"What family member works for the police?"
"My brother, he's a police assistant for the City of Phoenix."
"Police assistant? What does he do?"
"I'm not sure, I think he buys the donuts."
I was excused from further duty.
 
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I was called for duty last spring, but being self employed, and knowing the Prosecutor, I was granted an exemption.
In some ways, I was glad, in other ways I almost felt guilty.
 
restoman said:
I was called for duty last spring, but being self employed, and knowing the Prosecutor, I was granted an exemption.
In some ways, I was glad, in other ways I almost felt guilty.
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if you're feeling guilty before the case even starts, then you should be excused. :bwuhaha:
 
I have been in High Court several times. Once for 2 guys who caused a Fatal Motor Vehicle Collision & then left the scene, another was a Break & Enter to a liquor store by backing a truck through the window and fled which got me into a high speed chase. During the high speed chase the guy smashed a car out of the way to get away and injured an older couple seriously another was for arresting a guy for a series of break-ins totalling $100,000.00 and the last was for a guy I caught in a stolen car.

What you have to understand is that in Canadian Law to have a jury trial you have passed several steps. Your normal way is for your first appearance, then you come back with a lawyer to decide what you are going to do. In some offenses you can opt for a Preliminary Hearing where the Crown presents his evidence to see if there IS enough evidence to go to trial. If the Judge decides there is enough evidence then they have the choice in some offenses to elect Judge alone or Judge & jury. Our every day courts do not have juries.

Of the cases I mentioned the longest sentence given (for the break-in with injury) the guy got 2 years plus one day and time served in custody. You might ask what's up with the 2yrs + a day? Under our system if you get 2yrs less a day you serve your time in a provincial institution. With 2yrs + a day you go to a federal prison. Normally country club vs jail. He bragged on the way out of court he would be out in 10 months & he was. Back doing crimes. In Canadian law life in jail is 25yrs with allowances for parole after a certain amount of time in jail, normally after 14 years. Jail isn't the end al be all in all case, but............

What I like about the U.S. court system, in a case like this when found guilty of serious crimes U.S. judges will sentence the murderer to 10 life sentences. So if our 2 systems are the same and doing the math they are going away for 250 years. Parole would kick in after 140-160 years. How many people do you see walking, talking at 140-160 years...............I won't tell you what the 2 guys who were involved in the fatal got. The sentencing made me sick to my stomach.

Some may ask, "Don't you think you have a never ending job or why do it"? My answer, they commit the crime, we investigate make arrests and then it is up to the courts. I can sleep at night............:huh:

I enjoy what I do otherwise I wouldn't be here..........after 30yrs I could go on & on but :huh:

Bob
1967 Plymouth Fury 1
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I'm guessing you're some type of law enforcement bb?
Far to often down here in the us, is the sentencing is too light for the crime if any. Both my sister and niece have been convicted of identity theft, of meth possession, all kinds of fraud, theft, and check forging and neither one has spent time in prison. The most time my sister has done was a few months in jail for failure to appear. wtf?
 
I got selected for Jury Duty in the Summer of '03. The Judge kept calling names and the people would either have a reason to not serve, or the defense would reject them ( I think they had 3 rejection things ). I was the last juror selected and couldn't come up with a good reason to not serve. I said "Fuck" out loud because it was Summer, and I was working P/T enjoying the sun. The defense did NOT want me on the jury because of my age and probable lack of compassion. Too bad for them, they used up all their rejection things.

Not allowed to talk about anything that happened, but what a long 2 weeks ;)
 
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