D.A. Confronts 'Jury Pool From Hell'

[BamaNation]

D.A. Confronts 'Jury Pool From Hell'

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Defense attorney Leslie Ballin called it the "jury pool from hell." The group of prospective jurors was summoned to listen to a case of Tennessee trailer park violence. Right after jury selection began last week, one man got up and left, announcing, "I'm on morphine and I'm higher than a kite.

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Another would-be juror said he had had alcohol problems and was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover officer. "I should have known something was up," he said. "She had all her teeth."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=1&u=/ap/shallow_jury_pool

 

[Pachydermatous]

The things they do to get off jury duty. It's not so bad. You just sit around for days eating off the county, then you get kicked off the jury because one lawyer or another doesn't like your looks, or you gave the wrong answer to a question. Inbetween times you get hauled into one courtroom after another to be briefed on all the cases coming up for trial. It's fun. Try it! :biggrin:

 

[Piglet]

The sheer variety in human DNA never fails to amaze me. You get a cross section of the population, you never know what's gonna turn up.

Anyhow, that doesn't sound so bad. They named just four or five interesting specimens out of at least three dozen, and at least some of them were probably lying outrageously just to get off the jury.

My favorite urban legend was the woman who said she couldn't be on the jury because she was breast feedin' her kid.

The judge said, you can breast-feed in the jury box.

Slight pause.

She said, "I'm breast-feedin' my sixteen year old."

She was excused from jury duty.

 

[ValuJet]

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[Queasy1]

Jury of your peers indeed!