Jury Duty.Follow

"Your Honor, the jury has reached a verdict. Guilty by reason of.... C'MOOOOON! LOOKIT 'IM!"

It's beyond a reasonable doubt for criminal charge for a reason.

That is all.

Well, since there are no laws about me talking about the trial once it's over.

The charges were two counts of indecent exposure. One in 2009, the other in 2010. Four witnesses, all the women who were flashed by a nude man on the beach. Three of them were in 2009, the charge that was dropped half way through the trial. One was in 2010. None of the witnesses were able to identify the defendant. The 2010 occurrence happened on July 4th in a state park, but on a section of beach that the woman didn't see anyone else in. They just weren't able to provide any proof that the man on the defendant's chair was the man they saw. The only identifiable descriptions were "a six foot tall thin man with short dark hair". The defendant was found in a 1/4 mile radius around the area about 10 minutes after the supposed event.

Edited, Jan 10th 2011 9:18pm by TirithRR

From that description you did the right thing. No ID of man, then you must acquit.

Kudo's for doing your civic duty. I'd rather see a guilty flasher walk-away free than an innocent person jailed.

Because the people who most often go nude, are not the ones we want to be seeing nude.

I don't understand why so many people who aren't nudists get on their soapboxes to advocate it whenever its brought up. We get it: it's not a particularly logical law. Not all of our social conventions that get codified are based on cold, rational logic. But its not hard to not be naked. If its so important to you to, then there are plenty of nudist colonies for you to run free in. Go nuts.

Hey, someone's gotta stir the pot. Seems like this place is dead unless alma's providing fodder lately.

This being my first time, the case was pretty boring. The Judge and lawyers spent, in our opinion, too much time arguing amongst themselves, and we were stuck in the Jury Room waiting for the trial to resume for a long time quite often.

The other jurors were nice people. Most of the time we just sat around talking to each other about work, the area, etc. Laughing about stupid ****. One woman was scared by the radiator venting pressure and couldn't stop laughing after she realized what it was. One guy fell asleep during the one and a half hour wait we had after the lunch recess before the trial actually started up.

I mean, we did do our jobs, we weren't slacking off all the time. And when it came down to final deliberations we were serious and went over all the witness testimony and which parts we were instructed to ignore. But while waiting for the trial to resume over the many long recesses we didn't discuss too much of the trial. One guy definitely wasn't too happy about being stuck in the jury room at the end cause he couldn't go out for a smoke.

I did find out that it seems all I have to do to get out of jury duty is tell them I am related to a police officer. Every juror that had any ties to the police force was excused by the defense.

We were told that we could discuss the case during breaks only if all the jurors were present (obviously weren't allowed to discuss it with anyone not on the jury though). But we should avoid making conclusions until all the evidence had been presented.

I say somebody at wherever it is you need to report for jury duty has the hots for you.