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Subject:  Re: MRK-stick to the facts Date:  8/28/2005  9:35 AM
Author:  freethinkerkeywe Number:  8759 of 41514

Go to any town and watch the jury selection process. NO ONE who works wants to serve on a jury despite your suggestion to the opposite. The doctors, lawyers, businessmen, anyone with any degree of pull won't even appear for the process because they will have their lawyer (or they themselves) call the judge and get themselves excused before the process even begins. I know because that's how I handled it when I was called, a process suggested to me by several others who had similarly gotten off. As a result, it is difficult, if not impossible to get jury of your peers (at least in terms of a decent level of sophistication). One of the jurors even said they didn't understand the science AND THEREFORE THEY IGNORED IT.



Loud mouthed hypocrites are the lowest form of critics.


When you lie to get off jury duty, you become an anti-citizen. You do yourself and your fellow citizens wrong. You still want influence in your commmunity but you want no responsibility. This is what I call immauirity.


Just to shoot a few more holes in your thinking:



Our group of seven thought both the prosecutor and the defense attorney were terrific in their pre-trial warmups. We were anxious to hear the specifics of the case.





What Would Jefferson Do?

Serve your community, and serve your country. In most areas, you are only elgible to serve once a year. And if they call again, go down, answer pre-selection questions honestly, and see if you are selected.


