08-11-2022, 03:52 PM
Day 3
The prayer went out that this would be over quickly. And it sort of was. I arrived at the assembly room at 10:15. The Queen was already there for her panel filling out paper work. After a short wait, they called us up to Courtroom. As usual for this panel, something was amiss. Juror 1 was missing. The Judge had started before she noticed the empty chair. There was discussion. Rather than just put one of the alternates in that chair immediately, the Judge came down from the bench and added another chair to the jury pool area from the audience area.
We then did for the millionth time the worst game of lottery every. Numbers were read to fill the three vacant seats. I heard again the question I'd been hearing for the last two days. Do you respect the cops? Can you be fair to a defendant who won't testify? Where do you fall on the spectrum to criminalize drugs? (Every time the Prosecutor asked that question, when he said spectrum I at first thought Autism) One of the knew potential jurors was a military woman who made the mistake of saying she would give more credence to what cops would say over civilians testimony. She was given the boot and we played fill the empty seat one more time and got to hear the questions one more time. But that was the last round. The jury was full complete with two alternants. None of whom were me.
The court case was going to be burglary. The defendant was accused of robbing an Auto Parts store and a Metro PCS. He drug paraphernalia on him when arrested back in November. You could kind of glean the gist of the defense by the questions the defense attorney asked. It was going to be somewhere along the lines of he was high on drugs when committed the crimes. That will be for someone else to resolve as I am done.
The Queen is still enmeshed. They need a pool of 100 potential jurors. They currently have 12 after dismissing most of the people summoned. They will keep calling people in until they have the 100 then they will do Voir Dire. Once empaneled, that trial is going to last six weeks. Mine was supposed to last six days.
The prayer went out that this would be over quickly. And it sort of was. I arrived at the assembly room at 10:15. The Queen was already there for her panel filling out paper work. After a short wait, they called us up to Courtroom. As usual for this panel, something was amiss. Juror 1 was missing. The Judge had started before she noticed the empty chair. There was discussion. Rather than just put one of the alternates in that chair immediately, the Judge came down from the bench and added another chair to the jury pool area from the audience area.
We then did for the millionth time the worst game of lottery every. Numbers were read to fill the three vacant seats. I heard again the question I'd been hearing for the last two days. Do you respect the cops? Can you be fair to a defendant who won't testify? Where do you fall on the spectrum to criminalize drugs? (Every time the Prosecutor asked that question, when he said spectrum I at first thought Autism) One of the knew potential jurors was a military woman who made the mistake of saying she would give more credence to what cops would say over civilians testimony. She was given the boot and we played fill the empty seat one more time and got to hear the questions one more time. But that was the last round. The jury was full complete with two alternants. None of whom were me.
The court case was going to be burglary. The defendant was accused of robbing an Auto Parts store and a Metro PCS. He drug paraphernalia on him when arrested back in November. You could kind of glean the gist of the defense by the questions the defense attorney asked. It was going to be somewhere along the lines of he was high on drugs when committed the crimes. That will be for someone else to resolve as I am done.
The Queen is still enmeshed. They need a pool of 100 potential jurors. They currently have 12 after dismissing most of the people summoned. They will keep calling people in until they have the 100 then they will do Voir Dire. Once empaneled, that trial is going to last six weeks. Mine was supposed to last six days.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm