JURY DUTY, CITIZENS DUTY, EMPLOYERS DUTY
It is nothing like the legal eagle TV shows, not the jury holding rooms (cattle calls), not the individual jury rooms (think "twelve angry men," or the court room, (think Nuremburg trials).
The lawyers range from Dustin Hoffman doing his quiet role, "...you don't remember killing anyone, ......do you? To the other guy, Barry Bombast, who pushes around everyone, pissing off even the judge, who has to put him in his place.
Clients in wheel chairs, judges admonishing the jury, 'Now, don't feel compassion for him, (the poor dumb shit, he fell of his own tricyle).
Yelling, nashing of teeth, $12 a day, and bomb scares. Two down, four to go and I'm exhausted. Oh, jury selection took one whole day. The judge: now tell me, dear, any reason you CAN'T SERVE?? "Oh yes, my great uncle Herbert is here and has to be carried to the toilet and I can't be anywhere else except home."
Very well, excused. .....You'd think Tucson was full of the walking wounded. College students grew on trees that couldn't DARE miss finals.
And the poor dumb fools called to jury duty, let off because employers would not pay them wages to take off for jury duty. Tucson has NOT changed.
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The lawyers range from Dustin Hoffman doing his quiet role, "...you don't remember killing anyone, ......do you? To the other guy, Barry Bombast, who pushes around everyone, pissing off even the judge, who has to put him in his place.
Clients in wheel chairs, judges admonishing the jury, 'Now, don't feel compassion for him, (the poor dumb shit, he fell of his own tricyle).
Yelling, nashing of teeth, $12 a day, and bomb scares. Two down, four to go and I'm exhausted. Oh, jury selection took one whole day. The judge: now tell me, dear, any reason you CAN'T SERVE?? "Oh yes, my great uncle Herbert is here and has to be carried to the toilet and I can't be anywhere else except home."
Very well, excused. .....You'd think Tucson was full of the walking wounded. College students grew on trees that couldn't DARE miss finals.
And the poor dumb fools called to jury duty, let off because employers would not pay them wages to take off for jury duty. Tucson has NOT changed.
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