Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for August 18, 2011

I’d like a change of venue – to Vulcan.

You can put it this way – would you want to have your fate decided by twelve people who were’t smart enough to get out of jury duty? The better way: hire a lawyer who knows the system well enough to get a bench trial from a sympathetic judge.

The courts make it impossible to get out of jury duty! Most of the loopholes are closed. Whether you’re a student or self-employed,there’s almost no getting out of it,short of being a caretaker,an invalid patient,over the age of 75,under the age of 18,or dead.

12 people who don’t even want to be there.

And then there was the CAT that got called for jury duty, and the judge wouldn’t even let her off.

I recently read a blog by a man who served on a jury for a serious crime. He said the case was badly presented, but it was obvious the man was guilty. Once in the jury room, they took a vote and it came out 9 to 3 for INNOCENT! Then one of the three announced he was going to do whatever it took to get a a guilty verdict no matter how long it took. Someone suggested another vote and now it was 12 to 0 guilty. Such is the jury system.

having epilepsy scared the judge enough that i got out of jury duty