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One guy saying you should not try to avoid duty because you may need a good jury yourself one day. Like there is some kind of correlation or maybe jury karma? Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for lying to avoid jury duty? I have never been called

Well, when you eventually get called one day, have a look around the room. I guarantee you that the crowd in there will not resemble your own circle of friends and people you surround yourself with every day. You may even find yourself frightened by the idea of some of the people in there being in charge of deciding your fate if God forbid you ever ended up on trial before them. And you might hope that more responsible people would take jury duty seriously. Also, which one is a George Carlin ripoff?

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Posted by VADawg

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Posted on 3/6/16 at 10:49 am to Jefferson Dawg

My mother told me a story about how she was selected for jury duty about 20 years ago in Savannah when we used to live there. She got called for a DUI case for a teenage black kid. Judge was reading off the charges and read the kid's BAC, and he got up and yelled "That's bullshite, I was drunker than that!"

Made the jury's job pretty easy.

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Posted by Broncothor

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Posted on 3/6/16 at 8:44 pm to Jefferson Dawg

Personally I think juries should have qualifiers but someone would claim discrimination. For a robbery anyone should be callable. For tax fraud a financial background would be required. Etc. it would be nice to see lawyers win based on facts and evidence rather than showmanship and emotions. Razzle Dazzle. And the Summary verdict is much abused. A single judge deciding a case cannot get a trail. It's good to weed out frivolous cases with no true claim but is abused to throw out cases with merit.

"I can tell a guilty person just by looking at him" is an old George Carlin joke.

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