Comments on: Jury Duty http://www.damienriley.com/jury-duty/ blog of a teacher, songwriter, and lifelong learner Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:06:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Damien Riley http://www.damienriley.com/jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-3348 Damien Riley Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:35:46 +0000 http://www.postcardsfromthefunnyfarm.com/2007/07/02/jury-duty/#comment-3348 @<a href="#comment-8035" rel="nofollow">Denise</a>: I didn't get on the time I wrote about. I hope to one day. I think it would be awesome. Thanks for your comment. @Denise: I didn’t get on the time I wrote about. I hope to one day. I think it would be awesome. Thanks for your comment.

]]> By: Denise http://www.damienriley.com/jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-3347 Denise Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:12:21 +0000 http://www.postcardsfromthefunnyfarm.com/2007/07/02/jury-duty/#comment-3347 I was on jury duty ion NYC about 15 years ago. We were not sequestered and I could go back to my apt every night, but I couldn't talk about the case at all. An hour after we delivered our verdict, I got on a bus to visit my boyfriend. I was bursting with the case info. The girl sitting net to me ended up being some sort of exchange law student from Sweden and she was starving for information on the American judicial system. I couldn't wait to spill and she hung on every word. It was kismet. (Probably not for the other passengers though). I was on jury duty ion NYC about 15 years ago. We were not sequestered and I could go back to my apt every night, but I couldn’t talk about the case at all. An hour after we delivered our verdict, I got on a bus to visit my boyfriend. I was bursting with the case info. The girl sitting net to me ended up being some sort of exchange law student from Sweden and she was starving for information on the American judicial system. I couldn’t wait to spill and she hung on every word. It was kismet. (Probably not for the other passengers though).

]]> By: Damien Riley http://www.damienriley.com/jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-3346 Damien Riley Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:29:32 +0000 http://www.postcardsfromthefunnyfarm.com/2007/07/02/jury-duty/#comment-3346 Ha! That's a good one. We'll see what happens. I'm 50/50% Ha! That’s a good one. We’ll see what happens. I’m 50/50%

]]> By: Rosemarie http://www.damienriley.com/jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-3345 Rosemarie Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:35:27 +0000 http://www.postcardsfromthefunnyfarm.com/2007/07/02/jury-duty/#comment-3345 My mom was on a jury for months. It was interesting, but a hardship towards the end. You aren't allowed to discuss the case amongst yourselves so you end up talking about anything but. Maybe you'll meet another great dad there! I hope if you're picked it's a positive experience. I can't do it! I was questioned for a long time and was straight up about how my emotions could get the best of me. "If a plaintiff is wheeled in here and bandaged up...you can forget about it." They excused me! My mom was on a jury for months. It was interesting, but a hardship towards the end. You aren’t allowed to discuss the case amongst yourselves so you end up talking about anything but. Maybe you’ll meet another great dad there! I hope if you’re picked it’s a positive experience. I can’t do it! I was questioned for a long time and was straight up about how my emotions could get the best of me. “If a plaintiff is wheeled in here and bandaged up…you can forget about it.” They excused me!

]]> By: Damien Riley http://www.damienriley.com/jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-3344 Damien Riley Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:13:23 +0000 http://www.postcardsfromthefunnyfarm.com/2007/07/02/jury-duty/#comment-3344 Thanks for that pia. I think being on a jury, given the free time and resources to be comfortable, would be an amazing experience. Grand jury sounds pretty taxing! Since I'm a teacher off for the summer, I have the time so maybe they'll pick me! We'll just have to see. Thanks for that pia. I think being on a jury, given the free time and resources to be comfortable, would be an amazing experience. Grand jury sounds pretty taxing! Since I’m a teacher off for the summer, I have the time so maybe they’ll pick me! We’ll just have to see.

]]> By: pia http://www.damienriley.com/jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-3343 pia Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:14:22 +0000 http://www.postcardsfromthefunnyfarm.com/2007/07/02/jury-duty/#comment-3343 I was on Grand Jury two years ago. In NY it's a month, and you can't get out of it, nor do they ask any questions. If you're selected, you go We were supposed to be the special murder grand jury which was kind of exciting. Know the expression a Grand Jury would indict a ham sandwich? Not mine. One Juror was a police oversight attorney. He tried indicting every policeman. Murder's were taken away from us The average Grand Jury has 50 cases. We heard 15. One day, I was so frustrated, I screamed in my very non screaming non NY voice "my cousin was the policeman who broke the blue wall of silence in the Louima case" famous police brutality case. I have no idea why I screamed that, but it did humble him---and my cousin loved the story I was on Grand Jury two years ago. In NY it’s a month, and you can’t get out of it, nor do they ask any questions. If you’re selected, you go

We were supposed to be the special murder grand jury which was kind of exciting. Know the expression a Grand Jury would indict a ham sandwich? Not mine. One Juror was a police oversight attorney. He tried indicting every policeman. Murder’s were taken away from us

The average Grand Jury has 50 cases. We heard 15. One day, I was so frustrated, I screamed in my very non screaming non NY voice “my cousin was the policeman who broke the blue wall of silence in the Louima case” famous police brutality case. I have no idea why I screamed that, but it did humble him—and my cousin loved the story

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