Jury Pool Reject
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8 responses to “Jury Pool Reject”
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Brilliant failure, Jim!
Sincerely,
Andrew
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A. This was probably not his first rodeo.
B. You don’t take a jury unless you have enough priors that your sentencing guidelines will screw you if you take a judge and are convicted. (Juries don’t use guidelines)
C. The least the jury can give him per heroin deal is five years. He must have terrible priors. First time out under the guidelines would be less than five years. It sounds like he’s proceeding on the theory that he has to beat the charge, which is probably based on the testimony of a snitch.
D. How would you have felt about snitch testimony?
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Good question about snitch testimony. I don’t know how I’d feel. I’d have to appraise the credibility of the snitch. How hard were the police leaning on him? Was his testimony consistent and believable?
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both the prosecutor and defense go through this dance to try to exclude whoever they think is a threat to their interest.. it goes beyond left/right politics to how people feel about specific things… and sad to say the deeper thinkers and well read will get booted… they’re after people they can more easily persuade!
The last one I was thrown off … those with College level education were systematically exposed and booted.. the final selected jurors.. were not exactly PHD types!
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Never been on a jury, but picked them a few times. Unless you have money to waste on experts, it’s an educated guess. I tried to find people who seemed responsible, happy with life and willing to listen. Gender or race/ethnic background didn’t matter much.
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last one I was on – we spent more than two hours with both lawyers asking mucho questions of the people in the jury pool and eventually tossing out 3/4 of them.. That was my second time and cross checking with others.. finding that that is not the exception..
One might think that a jury is any old random one selected. nope.
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I’m like TMT, never sat, but picked quite a few juries many years ago and in another state. I’ve always wanted to get the chance, but I may never. Got called a couple of times when I lived in the City of Richmond, but in 18 years in Chesterfield, only once. When I asked at that time to be excused due to my legal duties, I was, and have never been tapped again.
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I was in a pool once and showed up several mornings during a two week period but never got seated (a nice scowl always scares the defense lawyers), but I did notice that the hardest working man in the courthouse was Joe Morrissey. He always seemed to have something going on in GD or Circuit, a real energizer bunny act. As a reporter I always loved covering murder trials, always went over to the GD court looking for human interest stories. Everybody should spend some time watching the real process, not the one you see on TeeVee.
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