i remember when i was called for jury duty and was given a questionnaire to answer

some of the things seemed pretty irrelevant to my ability to be impartial, but i'm sure it's a tried and proven metric

like "What news sources do you read?" or something like that

seems pretty innocuous, but. . .

That is very relevant.

You don't want a jury that knows the case.

Imagine for a moment someone reads a WaPo article about Kyle.

Or forbid a Vox article.

with a high profile case like that, though - it's got to be pretty tough to find a jury pool that doesn't know the case

but i get your point

Yep, that's the hard part.

the case i was called for was one where two young african american men were accused of shooting at police officers in an armed stand-off

so i dont know. maybe my race, the fact that I read realclearpolitics, bloomberg news, etc may be a factor or not a factor

@Neph (Nec) / Krystaps (War), you just advanced to level 6!

but, i was dismissed

Race is unfortunately taken into account during these things.

It's one of the systemic influences of racial discrimination that still exist.

"Juror #8, how do you feel about banks?"
"I hate them. A bank killed my dad."

"Juror 8 dismissed"

hah

my father was called as a potential juror in a case involving a drunk driver killing someone

he got out of it by saying that his friend was killed by a drunk driver

And if you want to get out of Jury duty for any drug related offenses? Just say you want pot legalized.

lol

Not joking

lol

i won't be able to use that soon if new york legalizes it next year

I certainly hope so.

I hope every state does.

So tired of the drug war.

it has certainly wasted a lot of time and resources

thanks a lot, Harry Anslinger

If it doesn't infringe on the rights of others, you shouldn't be arrested/in prison for it in my honest opinion.

This includes stuff like attempted suicide.

The last thing these people need is more problems in their lives.

~2:00:00 in this has some discussion of Lynn Wood, etc misappropriating funds in Kyle's defense. Can we get an update?

https://youtu.be/mMgnPLYJsNQ

I would say that they should have known better, but, I feel for Kyle and his mother. They needed help and Lin Wood swoops in saying he's going to #FightBack (lol) and make everything better

They probably aren't upper class or upper-middle class folk, don't have a lot of money for legal expenses, so they took the help

Lin Wood was looking for headlines. He's a glory seeking lunatic, as we have recently seen.

Yes. I know I took him at face value when it was first announced that he'd be handling the case, but

Definitely a nut just going from cause to cause