Plea Bargain

8 October 2008 2 Comments

I wish I had some juicy stories for you about my first experience as a juror, but fate wouldn’t have it. After 2 1/2 hours of sitting around in a large auditorium with nothing to do, we were all dismissed. Only 2 cases were on the docket today and both defendents plea bargained. That was my first experience with the judicial system -a dud.

I was hoping to at least come out with some material I could use in a future book or short story. It didn’t happen. Oh well, I managed to go to the Pacers game tonight where they held a throwback game to benefit the Salvation Army and a few other charities. There were many good stories at that event…

But, I’m going to leave you hanging until for a little while on that. If you’re following me on Twitter, look for some special freebies next week after Brian the COC web pilot gets back from vacation or wherever he’s at this week.

Carry on, Citizens!

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2 Comments »

Jurist Nbr 2 said:

see, now I got stuck doing 14 hour days serving on the infamous (so famous, he’s in-famous) egging/shooting jury.
http://indygov.org/eGov/County/Pros/PR/2005/Pages/Egg%20Shooting.aspx
Spent a LOT of time on that one.

# 8 October 2008 at 10:46 pm

Brian said:

The web pilot will be around next week and probably hunkering down for the winter after being out of town for much of the past month & a half. Turning into a globe trotter, or so the web pilot has been told. (But he sucks at basketball.)

Anyway, you can use my jury duty story…it had to do with lesbians having a domestic dispute (while only in their panties and a t-shirt of course) and a cop showing up and one of them hitting the cop. Then on the stand the cop starts dropping “F” bombs left and right. After hours of testimony we got tired and wanted to go home for dinner, so we asked the judge what the punishment would be…probably counseling and probation…so we let them go home (not guilty) so we could have dinner with our families and they could prepare for their Jerry Springer episode…plus we all thought the cop was a wanker and that someone should have slapped him if that’s how he acts.

You can’t make that stuff up, but have at it and fill in the story line…just don’t turn it into the next Titanic love story of death.

# 9 October 2008 at 8:28 am