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#118959 - 06/22/07 02:55 PM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: Dianne]
Dancing Dolphin Member Registered: 03/06/06 Posts: 2529 Loc: Southern California	Yup, our tax dollars are wasted for things like that. So frustrating, but I guess that's our "system" and some people just know how to abuse it. At least he didn't talk - you could have been there three times as long if he decided to cross examine everyone! Kathy
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#118960 - 06/22/07 08:08 PM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: Dancing Dolphin]
Edelweiss Member Registered: 06/05/06 Posts: 4136 Loc: American living in Europe	Crossstich,your report was interesting. Never have been on a jury and never will be...they don't have that in Germany.
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#118961 - 06/22/07 10:29 PM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: Edelweiss]
chickadee Member Registered: 09/26/04 Posts: 3910 Loc: Alabama	I don't think I'd be any good for jury duty. I'd probably analyse the crap out of a case and research it to death. Thanks for updating us. _________________________ chick ~ Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't ~ ~ Prayer is the most we can do for another human being ~
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#118962 - 06/23/07 12:07 PM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: chickadee]
CrosstitchQueen Member Registered: 09/20/05 Posts: 477 Loc: Sanford, Florida	Hannalore - I'm curious -- how do they handle it in Germany when someone is accused of a crime? _________________________ Ann
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#118963 - 06/23/07 01:52 PM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: CrosstitchQueen]
jawjaw Da Queen Registered: 07/02/03 Posts: 12025 Loc: Alabama	I'd be trying to figure out a way to write an article about it....probably during the trial. _________________________ Queen JJ www.queenjawjaw.com All Things Royal - 2010 and Beyond Humorist for the NABBW
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#118964 - 06/23/07 08:30 PM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: jawjaw]
Edelweiss Member Registered: 06/05/06 Posts: 4136 Loc: American living in Europe	Crossstitch, I was mistaken, they do have juries here. Only I'd never be called on because I'm an American. But there are differences. People volunteer here for jury duty. No one is just randomly picked out. These volunteers recieve their full missed salary. I don't know how that is in the US. I think they only have juries for really complicated cases. Otherwise only the judge decides.
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#118965 - 06/24/07 12:08 AM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: Edelweiss]
CrosstitchQueen Member Registered: 09/20/05 Posts: 477 Loc: Sanford, Florida	Don't know if this is always the case, but we got paid $40 per day, plus milage, tolls and parking. But you don't get it right away.......they mail it to you in 4 to 6 weeks. There was an author on the jury. He told us during the time we were discussing and trying to reach our verdict that he had approached it in the same way he does when he figures a plot for one of his novels. At that point we didn't know why the defendant wasn't speaking up for himself or having his lawyer speak for him and the author came up with several good points during the discussion. (I looked for his book on Amazon.......it's called Dead Man's Hand and the author's last name was Goulding-- it's a murder mystery). _________________________ Ann
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#118966 - 06/24/07 12:32 AM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: CrosstitchQueen]
chickadee Member Registered: 09/26/04 Posts: 3910 Loc: Alabama	Dead man's hand. I know that. It's Aces and Eights in Poker. The story is from the wild west. The origin of the name, legend has it, is the five-card-draw hand held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder (August 2, 1876), which is accepted to have included the aces and eights of both of the black suits. Hey, I'll check out that book. _________________________ chick ~ Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't ~ ~ Prayer is the most we can do for another human being ~
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#118967 - 07/26/07 11:22 AM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: chickadee]
CrosstitchQueen Member Registered: 09/20/05 Posts: 477 Loc: Sanford, Florida	Thought I'd report in and tell y'all that the check arrived paying me for my jury duty days and I got more than I expected............but I'm not complaining!!! _________________________ Ann
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#118968 - 07/27/07 03:28 PM Re: I'm sure you're right... [Re: CrosstitchQueen]
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	Count on chhick for card trivia. You go girl! Crossstitch, glad to hear your money arrived. How are you going to spend it? _________________________ Founder Emeritus of Boomer Women Speak and the National Association of Baby Boomer Women. www.nabbw.com www.boomerwomenspeak.com
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