Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 11, 2017

The man in orange will thank rat later… I am sure if it…

Is this how O.J. got off the first time?

Funny! I thought he might have been talking about a police officer….ya how they were blue uniforms….sometimes…..some places…..err….never mind.

everytime i get called for JD (and i get called a lot), i always think i’ll do the “lie” thing, not be impartial, say the defendant looks guilty, etc. BUT, once you get up there, and the judge and bailiff and prosecutor is right there staring at you, you just can’t help but tell the truth……

You mean that there’s actually somebody else with whom Rat is a peer of?

Well, why else do they call them ‘criminal lawyers’?

About the guy in blue, Rat is not wrong.

A “Criminal Attorney” IS kind of redundant when you think about it…

Orange is such a friendly, trustworthy color.

This is a naive, useless question, but-

Why don’t lawyers also have to swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

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I know… don’t bother to explain it to me…

Just musing aloud.

Rats answer on “that’s the lawyer” in panel 3 should’ve been “Nailed it.”

As Dave Barry observed, the Constitution gives you the right to a trial by 12 people too dumb to get out of jury duty.

I really enjoyed my sole turn serving on a jury — a five-day civil assalt case involving two former college soccer players. I never was summoned again and have always been a bit disappointed about it.

The closest I will ever be to be on jury duty was in 1996 when me and some friends, mainly sons and daughters of rotarians, went to Ohio as part of a good will tour to a town that had been “twinned” with ours. Aamong other activities we went to the courth house and talked with one judge, who was about to dictate sentence to a woman who lied in court about her husband sexually abusing his kids. He asked us to sit at the jurors´ chairs and to remain silent. He sentenced her to 12 yers. Her husband had been sentenced to 9 years.

I would LOVE to sit on a jury! I’ve been called once, but it was a SLOW too weeks and so I did not get to sit on a case. I really want to do it! Kind of sucks that all these people who don’t want to are the ones who are always called.

Rat has righteous attitude, but he seems to be teetering on the brink of contempt. Play nice with the judge until you are dismissed, Rat!

He seems nice now, but not earlier..