What are you doing right now?

[RootDKJ]

Jury duty.

 

[wa-loaf]

Jury duty.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40073126/ns/us_news-weird_news

 

[RootDKJ]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40073126/ns/us_news-weird_news

Something like that :smash:

 

[smitty77]

Jury duty.

I need to serve my time as well later this month. I get called every 3 years and 3 months without fail.

 

[RootDKJ]

I need to serve my time as well later this month. I get called every 3 years and 3 months without fail.

A complete waste of a day. The whole process is broken. You sit around for most of the day just to have the judge, prosecutor or defense reject you.

The defense attorney rejected everyone who had a masters degree or higher. I got rejected because I have family in the county sherriff's department and I told the judge that there was a possibility for that to cause me to be impartial.:blink: and I had to wait around until 4pm for my # to be called. :flag:

it was a criminal case that was expected to last at least 5 days.

 

[smitty77]

A complete waste of a day. The whole process is broken.

I feel bad for you... It's not as broken here in Mass. I've only been seated once in 4 calls to serve. The other 3 times they let me go before noon. Even in Worcester where the docket is jam packed, they let us loose by 11 am.

The one time I got seated I made the first cut and figured there was no way I was going to sit - it was a drunk driving case, I was nineteen and volunteered in the emergency medical service in town and at college. When on campus all I did was take care of drunks. I thought for sure they were going to give me the axe but they didn't. I was the youngest on the jury by about 15 years. I think the defense was hoping I'd cut the guy some slack... Sorry suckah!

 

[bvibert]

I've only been called for jury duty twice in the last 15 years. The first time I had just moved out of the district (it got forwarded to my new address). The second time was a few years ago on a Thursday. When I called the courthouse the night before I got a recording from that Monday saying that no one was needed for the whole week. I guess they don't go through too many jurors in my neck of the woods...

 

[Warp Daddy]

Got a call from one of my former Assistant deans yesterday .
He's at Syracuse U now and is up here on business so he's taking me to lunch today
It'll be great to get together . He and his family are also skiers so we have a lot in common. He was one of the young guns i mentored so its always fun to see him a real upbeat kinda guy - so the BS stories will flow this afternoon

 

[Geoff]

Spending an extra hour at Green Airport in Providence. Philly is a mess and everything into PHL from the north is taking an ATC delay. 2 days in the Comcast Center. Looks like I will be there a lot over the next few months.

 

[severine]

Watching this:

 

[WakeboardMom]

I feel bad for you... It's not as broken here in Mass. I've only been seated once in 4 calls to serve. The other 3 times they let me go before noon. Even in Worcester where the docket is jam packed, they let us loose by 11 am.

The one time I got seated I made the first cut and figured there was no way I was going to sit - it was a drunk driving case, I was nineteen and volunteered in the emergency medical service in town and at college. When on campus all I did was take care of drunks. I thought for sure they were going to give me the axe but they didn't. I was the youngest on the jury by about 15 years. I think the defense was hoping I'd cut the guy some slack... Sorry suckah!

My 25-year-old son finished jury duty a week ago. He was on the case that convicted the piece of crap who committed the atrocities in Mont Vernon, NH. It took them 90 minutes to render a verdict.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/spader_jury_is.html

 

[wa-loaf]

My 25-year-old son finished jury duty a week ago. He was on the case that convicted the piece of crap who committed the atrocities in Mont Vernon, NH. It took them 90 minutes to render a verdict.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/spader_jury_is.html

One of those cases where you really wish the punishment could fit the crime.

 

[Warp Daddy]

My 25-year-old son finished jury duty a week ago. He was on the case that convicted the piece of crap who committed the atrocities in Mont Vernon, NH. It took them 90 minutes to render a verdict.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/spader_jury_is.html

Too many of these types of cases it seems . We as a society need to bring these vermin to swift justice and not tie our prisons up with yrs of undue cost and overhead .

 

[WakeboardMom]

Too many of these types of cases it seems . We as a society need to bring these vermin to swift justice and not tie our prisons up with yrs of undue cost and overhead .

NH has the death penalty only under certain circumstances. If a criminal kills a police officer, the criminal can be put to death. This punishment only became law after a relatively recent occurence of a police officer's death. The word is now that a killing committed during a home invasion will likely be added to the list.

 

[krisskis]

working...3am...lots of sick kids tonight :-(

 

[smitty77]

I feel bad for you... It's not as broken here in Mass. I've only been seated once in 4 calls to serve. The other 3 times they let me go before noon. Even in Worcester where the docket is jam packed, they let us loose by 11 am.

Went in today to serve at 8am and was released by 11am. NICE!

 

[severine]

Making whoopie......








pies. Pumpkin with cream cheese frosting. YUM.

 

[WakeboardMom]

Righ now I am getting ready to go over the river and through the woods...or over the GW and through NJ, PA and DE (after NH, MA and NY) to see my son and fam!! Can't wait!

: )

 

[Warp Daddy]

yep The Queen and I are busy with LAST minute details of cooking and cleaning and making up the bedrooms and guest bathroomand otherwise getting the joint ready for the first wave of guests for the holidays. Our daughter and her family arrive around midnite tonite and my B-I-L arrives tomorrow .


Have a great Holiday everyone !

 

[drjeff]

Trying to make it through the last hour of work before we lock the doors and shut the place down until the Monday after Thanksgiving To make the clock go even slower, as soon as we're done here its off to one of the local restaurants/bars in town for the office holiday party :beer: