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ADINSX posted:I've never actually been called in... I've been registered to vote in seattle for a couple of years now and usually kept my other registrations up to date; so idk it's weird because i was told by a lifetime resident of here that he gets consistently called every other year. i've been living here five and haven't been called once.
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i've gotten a couple of notices, but every time save one i called the hotline the night before and was told that the case was settled and i didn't need to come in. the one time i did i had to get up at 5:30 to be there by 6:00, stood around in the hallway for 2 hours before being called in, watched the jury service video, took 5 bathroom breaks while things were explained and then the judge told half of us to go home because there were too many jurors. it was a civil case were some property management company was suing a paving company (or vice versa). my brother actually served on an interesting case: a lady rear-ended a guy at a traffic light and he was suing for medical costs claiming that the accident left him too injured to work anymore. he showed up in a neck brace with a lionel hutz type of lawyer and everything. his case fell apart when an investigator found footage of him on facebook going off ramps on a four-wheeler and running around the week before the trial and the woman's lawyer tried to claim that it wasn't her fault because she was struck by a phantom car that pushed her into the guy's car and then drove off leaving no damage. everyone on the jury was laughing at how full of poo poo they both were, save for one kooky lady who "felt his pain" and dragged what should have been a 10 minute deliberation to an hour. still, they decided that the lady was responsible for the damage and emergency room bills related to the accident since she did hit him and that's it.
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univbee posted:he wouldn't even be allowed to say "oh i know where you can get those knives", if within the context of the trial the conclusion is that the knife is rare, that's what you have to accept as the "truth", it's the defense's fault for not challenging it Holy poo poo, I'm so glad I've never had to deal with this kind of poo poo. I don't know if I could just ignore something that I know to be false like that.
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The_Franz posted:it was a civil case were some property management company was suing a paving company (or vice versa). Landlords suing a Joe the Plumber. Whomever loses we win! Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 21:15 on May 31, 2018 |
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living in alameda county is a great way to both get called for jury duty a lot and witness first class suburban racism
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Janitor Prime posted:Holy poo poo, I'm so glad I've never had to deal with this kind of poo poo. I don't know if I could just ignore something that I know to be false like that. and that is why voir dire exists the trial i was called for had only policemen (and possibly the victim i guess) as witnesses to the prosecution. didn't get a lot of details obviously but it sounds like the accused wasn't positively identified and we'd have to take the cops' word that he done it. so when they ask "can you take what a policeman says in court as the truth, making only judgments based on what you heard and not making assumptions from what you might have heard about the police?" and you go "gently caress no, only trust your fists" they will thank you for your service and look for someone less nuanced
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lancemantis posted:living in i think its pretty universal
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Do I get more jury votes if I wear my $400 shoes to court
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keyboard vomit posted:Do I get more jury votes if I wear my $400 shoes to court make them worth $600 and you get to be the judge 
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every court i've been to has a shoe shine stand right in the front of the building with a bunch of signage heavily implying that if you have lovely shoes you're going to jail
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there's a benjamin sticking out behind each of my ankles, does that count?
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qirex posted:this thread is reminding me I should condition my horween vans glad somebody's cleaning their shoes here
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Sagebrush posted:lol five years NYC you get a certificate that is good for seven years. Sorry you live somewhere bad.
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Shaggar posted:as if a bicyclist would ever be arrested for their crimes. pedal fast eat rear end
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So 12 Angry Men is apparently a tale of extremely bad and invalid jury behavior, lol My Cousin Vinny is apparently a well-liked movie among lawyers and judges because it gets a lot of procedural details right in ways that are important to the dialogue and plot. Also it is funny
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that sign should say gently caress off everyone including me and be large enough to reach from there to the fidi
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prisoner of waffles posted:So 12 Angry Men is apparently a tale of extremely bad and invalid jury behavior, lol pretty much. it's the tale of one guy arguing a jury from 11-1 guilty to 12-0 innocent (although to be fair some people have pretty bad reasons for voting guilty like "I have tickets to the big game" or "I'm a huge racist")
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https://twitter.com/CORPORATE_NAME/status/1002286766144000001
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haveblue posted:pretty much. it's the tale of one guy arguing a jury from 11-1 guilty to 12-0 innocent (although to be fair some people have pretty bad reasons for voting guilty like "I have tickets to the big game" or "I'm a huge racist") again, just flip around the parties and ask yourself what you think "that policeman couldn't have shot that kid. policemen are trained to aim for the chest, and the kid was shot in the head!" (nodding) "and the single mother across the road couldn't have heard it happen. she has five children, and it was after school, so you know how loud children can be!" (murmurs of agreement) i like the movie a lot but i do recognize that it's a classic mistrial and for perfectly valid reasons really the problem is that the kid's lawyer was apparently unbelievably lovely and didn't bring up in court any of the issues henry fonda later discussed, even super obvious things like questioning an old lady's eyesight Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 21:59 on May 31, 2018 |
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Person Who Bought House In San Francisco 2 Years Earlier Mad About Person Who Bought House 1 Year Earlier
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fishmech posted:Person Who Bought House In San Francisco 2 Years Earlier Mad About Person Who Bought House 1 Year Earlier oh, yeah, also every single juror at the selection was either "i'm sixty-five, i've lived in san francisco for forty years and before that i lived in san jose, i'm retired and married with no children" or "i'm thirty, i've lived in san francisco for eighteen months, i'm single, i work in tech and i live with four other adults"
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President Beep posted:make them worth $600 and you get to be the judge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVt1EY896cY
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Sagebrush posted:every court i've been to has a shoe shine stand right in the front of the building with a bunch of signage heavily implying that if you have lovely shoes you're going to jail i saw a guy wearing a "it's beer o'clock" or some such t-shirt and you better believe he did not exit by the same door he came in also my only furry siting was in a courtroom
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syscall girl posted:also my only furry siting was in a courtroom lol. im just imagining someone like liz lemon, only dressed as a furry instead of princess leia to dodge jury duty.
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Snitches get stitches.
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:pedal fast eat rear end sounds like a good saturday
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fishmech posted:Person Who Bought House In San Francisco 2 Years Earlier Mad About Person Who Bought House 1 Year Earlier California in a nutshell
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this is a good sign that you can avoid spending stupid money on shoes with my new vp starting soon, its women all the way up until I hit ceo lol
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Sagebrush posted:really the problem is that the kid's lawyer was apparently unbelievably lovely and didn't bring up in court any of the issues henry fonda later discussed, even super obvious things like questioning an old lady's eyesight so basically a modern public defender who had 1000 other trials going on simultaneously and could only afford to spend 7 minutes total on this one anyway i've only ever gotten called to jury duty once and it was right as i was moving across the state so i called them and asked if I could like, switch to doing it in the area I was moving to since i do actually feel it's important to do it, but they were like "oh you're moving? well nevermind then" and just cancelled it 
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Chris Knight posted:with my new vp starting soon, its women all the way up until I hit ceo lol so the only way for anyone to get promoted now is for all the guys to wear high heels, good luck friend
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Sagebrush posted:so when they ask "can you take what a policeman says in court as the truth, making only judgments based on what you heard and not making assumptions from what you might have heard about the police?" and you go "gently caress no, only trust your fists" they will thank you for your service and look for someone less nuanced I forgot that I had jury duty once, got tapped for the afternoon session, and was wearing this t-shirt:  needless to say I was dismissed
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CrazyLittle posted:I forgot that I had jury duty once, got tapped for the afternoon session, and was wearing this t-shirt: Ah, the judge was a Victorinox man, then? E: poo poo, Wenger got bought out in 2005? 
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tesla admits: our engineers loving suck and we do not test anything
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Schadenboner posted:Ah, the judge was a Victorinox man, then? heheh. no - they made me explain the joke under oath.
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our ABS calibration was so bad it prevents the car from stopping properly, it's not at all worrying that this went unnoticed until consumer reports gave us a poor review because our car is unsafe
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infernal machines posted:our ABS calibration was so bad it prevents the car from stopping properly, it's not at all worrying that this went unnoticed until consumer reports gave us a poor review because our car is unsafe a guy in the EV thread points out "if no one noticed it until now, why is it a problem??" (note that tesla has in the past made owners sign NDAs before agreeing to perform warranty work)
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