I had jury duty today. It turned out to be a lot of waiting and then all the potential jurors were released from service due to the defendant being too intoxicated to participate in his/her own trial
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One can only hope that the next jury might hear about it, and if they drove to court, they were arrested for that, too. The person has a big problem with alcohol, and apparently merely getting arrested for DUI didn't serve as a wakeup call.
At the very least, there should be some sort of default penalty, like sending the individual straight to rehab.
Free coffee, internet and 15 bucks, sign me up!gabrielhorseApril 12 2013, 15:32:42 UTC
I've done it 4 or 5 times where I live, once even got to hear some case involving a property dispute, then was dismissed by the judge himself because a settlement had been reached. I actually kind of enjoy it-like a one day crash course in law- except for having to get up early to go there, that part sucks.
Re: Free coffee, internet and 15 bucks, sign me up!kakoukorakosApril 13 2013, 13:55:10 UTC
No coffee, no internet, no electronic devices were allowed in court, so I left my phone in the car. It was a rather tedious 3hh wait in the community room, while the judge and lawyers figured-out if the defendant was fit to stand trial.
I actually was hoping to be selected, the judge led us on a bit, saying how it was a "complex case" and how 8 witnesses were to be called. It sounded at first like it wasn't going to be a DUI, but something more interesting. And then, at the end of the wait, the judge called us all in to the courtroom briefly to explain the situation and then dismissed everyone. In light of the defendant's drunkeness, and how nearly all the cases are DUI, I am making a bit of an assumption...
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One can only hope that the next jury might hear about it, and if they drove to court, they were arrested for that, too. The person has a big problem with alcohol, and apparently merely getting arrested for DUI didn't serve as a wakeup call.
At the very least, there should be some sort of default penalty, like sending the individual straight to rehab.
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I actually was hoping to be selected, the judge led us on a bit, saying how it was a "complex case" and how 8 witnesses were to be called. It sounded at first like it wasn't going to be a DUI, but something more interesting. And then, at the end of the wait, the judge called us all in to the courtroom briefly to explain the situation and then dismissed everyone. In light of the defendant's drunkeness, and how nearly all the cases are DUI, I am making a bit of an assumption...
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