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| Help Renauda [& others]; Get me out of jury selection | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 30 2011, 07:37 AM (390 Views) | |
| blondie | Jul 30 2011, 07:37 AM Post #1 |
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Bull-Carp
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Truly. It's been a fear of mine for years but now it's reality. I got this letter in the mail. A provincial summons. There's no way in hedoubletoothpicks I want to do this. I'd have nightmares for years if something gross were discussed. Truly. And I need my sleep to get through each and every day here. Like there's no way I can sit still for longer that 15 minutes without getting up needing to wander around. I need to be in motion to think. My mind is screwed. I can't follow any conversation very well. I get royal headaches trying to. I've had to orchestrate my life in ways so weird to others just to cope. I can't read more than a few paragraphs at a time. I hardly remember what I just read. No, I don't have a piece of paper from a doctor or shrink with a diagnosis for this. There's no way I'd spend money on that. And I've always felt judges should try criminals. And no one else. Frankly I don't give 2 hoots what goes on in a court room. Plus I'm supposed to go out of country like 6 days from when I'm summoned. I spent money on that. Like man. Why me? So, what wording do I put on the form so to exempt me? I have to send it in asap. Like I want to be exempted forever and not have this reoccuring fear of being selected. Or do I show up and what do I say? My brother [the city manager guy] is telling me to hype up the bizarro visually and get verbal of my views of the justice system. Well, I am verbal of it, but should I? Help. Edited by blondie, Jul 31 2011, 01:27 PM.
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| ivorythumper | Jul 30 2011, 08:18 AM Post #2 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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You could try robbing a convenience store.
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| Red Rice | Jul 30 2011, 08:40 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Your family members are all cops and/or you were once a victim of violent crime. No jury selection panel would touch you. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| blondie | Jul 30 2011, 08:52 AM Post #4 |
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Bull-Carp
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Really? Why? |
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| Larry | Jul 30 2011, 08:53 AM Post #5 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Answer every question with the word "Ralph".... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| Red Rice | Jul 30 2011, 09:33 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I'm presuming this is for a criminal trial. One of the most important criteria for juror selection is impartiality. If any juror is found to have a bias during or after the trial, a mistrial could be declared. To avoid that, potential jurors are screened, and usually having family members in law enforcement or being a victim of violent crime would be enough to call your impartiality into question and exclude you from jury duty. edit: Having told you this, I hope you'll reconsider if at all possible. Being tried in front of a competent jury of your peers is a cornerstone of Western justice. It is not necessarily a pleasant duty, but it is an important one. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| kenny | Jul 30 2011, 09:41 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Tell them you post on TNCR. Seriously, I would not say I had family in law enforcement since that can proven to be a lie. I'd say I was a victim of a serious crime, which could have gone unreported. |
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| blondie | Jul 30 2011, 09:45 AM Post #8 |
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Bull-Carp
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I've such a headache now just thinking of this. It's bloody well ruined my summer. No law enforcement types here. I truly don't give a darn what goes on justice wise with anyone charged. That's pretty pathetic being so apathetic but I've my own issues and don't give 2 hoots what goes on downtown. I've always been for judges not juries. |
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| blondie | Jul 30 2011, 09:46 AM Post #9 |
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Bull-Carp
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Actually Kenny, there's truth in that last statement. |
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| Red Rice | Jul 30 2011, 09:47 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Then claim being a victim of violent crime (you don't usually have to go into the details for them to exclude you). Or say you're a Bernhard Goetz fan. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| blondie | Jul 30 2011, 09:48 AM Post #11 |
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Bull-Carp
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I'm such a twit. I'd need to google that. Then I'd forget it. |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 30 2011, 10:19 AM Post #12 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Just tell them you are damn glad to be selected because it's high time somebody got tough on these guilty bastards. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| VPG | Jul 30 2011, 10:28 AM Post #13 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Having a provable trip planned has gotten me out of Jury duty four times when I lived in Chicago. Eight monthes after I moved to NJ I got called for Grand Jury. Had no more excuses, so I served eighteen weeks, one day a week. It was actually fun. |
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I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK! "People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look." Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971 | |
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| blondie | Jul 30 2011, 11:01 AM Post #14 |
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Bull-Carp
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This wouldn't be fun for someone like me. Yep. I've got documentation for the Sept trip, maybe proof for my Dec thing too. But truly, I'm not juror material and don't want to jump through hoops to prove that now and forever. |
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| blondie | Jul 30 2011, 11:03 AM Post #15 |
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Bull-Carp
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My brother said that if I'm excused for this now, my name goes back into the huge pool of eligible jurors for the future. So it's a random lotto. Is there any truth to that up here in Canada? |
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| kenny | Jul 30 2011, 11:23 AM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Doesn't some obscure religion teach, "Judge not!"? You could be a member. |
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| kenny | Jul 30 2011, 11:29 AM Post #17 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| apple | Jul 30 2011, 11:33 AM Post #18 |
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one of the angels
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just pretend to be VERY prejudiced.. anti gov, anti race, anti political, anti everything. |
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| apple | Jul 30 2011, 11:34 AM Post #19 |
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one of the angels
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or what Mik said. |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 30 2011, 11:37 AM Post #20 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Yeah. And don't forget to close with 'especially them niggers and meskins'. You'll be in like Flynn.. well, actually you'll be out. Out like... ok, out is good. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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