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Dec. 22nd, 2005 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bardic_ladyThe jury duty of great evil is DONE!!!! YAY!
Went in at 10. We started at 10:30 because there was a missing juror...The judge asked questions all morning. We got an hour for lunch and then the attorneys asked questions...*headdesk* I was dismissed at about 2:45. That was very exciting. I think the only real way to describe the experience is to transcribe the notes I took...
Here we go again....
Note:
Aunt-private attorney, Long Beach
Friends-Criminal and civil attorneys
re:defendant
He's so pretty-pretty icky.
I think Ms. Mitchell(the Deputy DA) is as bored as I am.
Here goes nothing.
Once upon a time, in a far-off kingdom, there lived a beautiful princess called Velaya...
I am horrified by the number of violent crimes committed by the jurors and their associates, and upon them. Holy crap.
Murder: 11
Attempted Murder: 3
Assault with a deadly: 9
Drup Possession: 4
Willful Property Damage: 1
Fraud: 3
Robbery with a deadly: 4
Major Traffic Violations (DUI/Driving w/o License): 4
International Drug Trafficking: 1
Possession of a deadly: 1
Public Drunkeness:1
Self/Relatives/Close Friends members of Criminal Street Gangs: 17
Middle school-gun
HS-drugs
The DA flirted an eyebrow at me!
Defense attorney is a schlump.
Judge: overuse of the term "tragedy"
David Lupher would have a fit.
Aw...The DA and I are both in black pinstripes...
A phonetic keyboard. That's incredible. I want one.
STOP USING TRAGEDY/TRAGIC!
Get rid of juror #1! (interesting balancing perspective later...)
It's like the opposite of "The Price is Right"
The DA smiled at me, I like her.
Never answer an either/or question with a binary answer.
Except for the schlump he sounds a little like Bob Einstein.
Mixed metaphors are lousy.
Ouch. Do not slap at the DA.
Stop asking naked questions.
I got to talk to the DA. Yay!
She's so much more efficient than he is.
Heh...They never have to tell me to speak up.
He doesn't have to yell. Judges shouldn't.
I wonder if learning ability should be factored into jury selection. Kinetic learners probably aren't as capable jurors...
But he's not going to say he's involved, he pled not guilty!
Please, please let me go!
I like his post-it method.
Okay, yeah, I had a minor momentary crush on the DDA, almost enough to make me interested in staying on the jury. But...Not really.
My posting of this was delayed by a Christmas Party at one of my brother's carpool friends. It would have been a much better party if there hadn't been 80 or so people there that I didn't know. Still, there was wandering and caroling, which is usually fun, and we even had a brass sextet to play along. As is traditional, I ended up as a music stand for the tuba, who actually went to my high school, so that was kinda cool...
Now to relax, as the tension of two days of gangs and murder with the threat of many more really attacks my neck and shoulders...
Went in at 10. We started at 10:30 because there was a missing juror...The judge asked questions all morning. We got an hour for lunch and then the attorneys asked questions...*headdesk* I was dismissed at about 2:45. That was very exciting. I think the only real way to describe the experience is to transcribe the notes I took...
Here we go again....
Note:
Aunt-private attorney, Long Beach
Friends-Criminal and civil attorneys
re:defendant
He's so pretty-pretty icky.
I think Ms. Mitchell(the Deputy DA) is as bored as I am.
Here goes nothing.
Once upon a time, in a far-off kingdom, there lived a beautiful princess called Velaya...
I am horrified by the number of violent crimes committed by the jurors and their associates, and upon them. Holy crap.
Murder: 11
Attempted Murder: 3
Assault with a deadly: 9
Drup Possession: 4
Willful Property Damage: 1
Fraud: 3
Robbery with a deadly: 4
Major Traffic Violations (DUI/Driving w/o License): 4
International Drug Trafficking: 1
Possession of a deadly: 1
Public Drunkeness:1
Self/Relatives/Close Friends members of Criminal Street Gangs: 17
Middle school-gun
HS-drugs
The DA flirted an eyebrow at me!
Defense attorney is a schlump.
Judge: overuse of the term "tragedy"
David Lupher would have a fit.
Aw...The DA and I are both in black pinstripes...
A phonetic keyboard. That's incredible. I want one.
STOP USING TRAGEDY/TRAGIC!
Get rid of juror #1! (interesting balancing perspective later...)
It's like the opposite of "The Price is Right"
The DA smiled at me, I like her.
Never answer an either/or question with a binary answer.
Except for the schlump he sounds a little like Bob Einstein.
Mixed metaphors are lousy.
Ouch. Do not slap at the DA.
Stop asking naked questions.
I got to talk to the DA. Yay!
She's so much more efficient than he is.
Heh...They never have to tell me to speak up.
He doesn't have to yell. Judges shouldn't.
I wonder if learning ability should be factored into jury selection. Kinetic learners probably aren't as capable jurors...
But he's not going to say he's involved, he pled not guilty!
Please, please let me go!
I like his post-it method.
Okay, yeah, I had a minor momentary crush on the DDA, almost enough to make me interested in staying on the jury. But...Not really.
My posting of this was delayed by a Christmas Party at one of my brother's carpool friends. It would have been a much better party if there hadn't been 80 or so people there that I didn't know. Still, there was wandering and caroling, which is usually fun, and we even had a brass sextet to play along. As is traditional, I ended up as a music stand for the tuba, who actually went to my high school, so that was kinda cool...
Now to relax, as the tension of two days of gangs and murder with the threat of many more really attacks my neck and shoulders...
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Date: 12/23/05 12:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/23/05 12:15 am (UTC)I DON'T KNOW!!! I don't often see the police officers without their uniforms...
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Date: 12/23/05 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/23/05 11:45 am (UTC)