RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
But only if you are driving a 2 1/2 ton truck.You do not explain anything. Last I knew they were for checking tires.
But only if you are driving a 2 1/2 ton truck.You do not explain anything. Last I knew they were for checking tires.
I have a coin purse, heavy duty of course, stuffed with coins for the toll booths. Interestingly, is the same size and shape as the Denver Sap I carried in LE. FWIWOkay, how would I explain a Beaver Tail sap? Tongue depressor?
Juries are made up of the people who can't come up with a viable reason not to serve. Some even enjoy it! Some might say this is evidence they aren't the brightest of our population.When I worked in the Courts I had conversations with a number of attorneys. Many of those chats left me disheartened. 33 1/3% plus expenses is the goal, not justice, fairness, civil rights, and certainly not guilt or innocence.
Juries, well juries are not randomly chosen from the voting rolls of your peers. Jurors are analyzed, categorized, selected or rejected by both sides and I thought that system has become corrupted also. I did find young enthusiastic public defenders however.
Some attorneys lamented having to practice "dirty law", i.e. traffic, criminal, marital, custody law, instead of the lucrative product liability cases they treasured. Most told me that it was the number of fellow attorneys that was slicing the pie so thin.
Can't make lawyer jokes here anymore. But feel free to do cop jokes, they don't bother us at all.Be very careful.... this could start a whole slew of "lawyer jokes"....
Indians up in the Rez used to attend "protests" with claw hammers on their belt. Perfectly innocent....This might be a Joke about the hammer, but I know of a few people who carried a ball peen hammer in their car for self defense purposes before Michigan eased concealed weapon laws. Effective in a pinch and innocently carried if your vehicle was scrutinized by law enforcement.
Smart kid. I was such a naive idealist when I got on the job that I actually thought I was supposed to go out and fight for truth, justice and the American way. Pretty dumb, eh?My son, the prosecutor, always tells me; "The law and justice have nothing in common."
I got jury duty notice yesterday. Sixth time in four years, I have the jury report recording on speed dial on my phone. Ex- LE, FF, Medic, Drug lab raid team. Son is the county Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, so what are my chances of being on a Jury? Still get the notices more than once a year.Jury duty, like voting, is a civic duty.
Our founding fathers included the right to trial by jury in the 6th amendment so that the government could never deprive the people of that right.
Avoiding the political discussion that this forum so wisely prohibits, I'll just say that jury duty may not be fun but it sure is important.
You will NEVER be on a jury. But they still get to send the notices out and you still get to reply...I got jury duty notice yesterday. Sixth time in four years, I have the jury report recording on speed dial on my phone. Ex- LE, FF, Medic, Drug lab raid team. Son is the county Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, so what are my chances of being on a Jury? Still get the notices more than once a year.
You will NEVER be on a jury. But they still get to send the notices out and you still get to reply...
Same here. I've TRIED to get them to let me sit a jury. They won't do it. But they'll put an alcoholic on jury for a fatal DWI trial.I got jury duty notice yesterday. Sixth time in four years, I have the jury report recording on speed dial on my phone. Ex- LE, FF, Medic, Drug lab raid team. Son is the county Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, so what are my chances of being on a Jury? Still get the notices more than once a year.
/\ Who is "They"? /\Same here. I've TRIED to get them to let me sit a jury. They won't do it. But they'll put an alcoholic on jury for a fatal DWI trial.
Striking a potential juror for cause is very straight forward.I have been in on the voir dire of witnesses along with the prosecutor while functioning as the officer in charge of criminal cases. I always felt that short of an obvious conflict we should just take the first 12 and run with them. It seems prosecutors and defense attorneys enjoy the game of trying to predict who is more likely to vote their way.