Anyone ever serve jury duty? Did you serve on a GJ investigating

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cloak and dagger situations?

[mitchtv]

1. I helped cause a hung jury

A black man accused of burglary. All they had was that he was sweating. Two older black ladies and myself voted aquittal. The whites were slobbering for a guilty verdict. I kept saying to myself to the DA "you can't prove that" Proof meant nothing to the idiot jury.

[DearAbby]

2. Got called once, I really was thinking

of saying with a crazy look. "Yes sir, I can tell those that are guilty they have it written on their foreheads" Luckily I was not picked to sit. :D The case was for a DUI and I had just divorced an alcoholic, guess they figured I would be biased against the defendant.

I would have done my civic duty, and served if I was picked to sit in the jury.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

3. I have been curious as to where the GJ for the Plamegate

were from? Did they call Grand Jurists from DC or form Chicago or from where?

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4. This is why I started this thread, cause I think there is going to be alot

of talk about this GJ.

And yes I have serve jury duty before on a murder case.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

9. kick because I am curious n/t

[Sapphire Blue]

5. Excused by the prosecutor during voir dire...

... when asked about the weight of physical evidence v eyewitness testimony... stated that physical evidence can be planted, eyewitness testimony can vary w/each eyewitness, and the jury doesn't have access to all of the evidence relevant to the alleged crime... only that which has been admitted into evidence.

Perhaps he thought I was too much of a skeptic.

[mamalone]

6. I did....kinda

I was on a grand jury that was investigating a case of prison guards beating up inmates at a correctional facility here in Upstate NY. Personally, I thought the one guard was guilty. He never came and testified,(he refused, didn't know they could do that) but another guard came in his defense. The whole thing was very smarmy and the thing never went to trial. One of the victims had engaged a lawyer and was suing the state for a couple of million.....once the rest of the jurors heard that they were completely biased against her.
Anyway, that is the extent of my experience:-)

[Indy65]

7. I served l6months on Federal Grand Jury-

It was a special Grand Jury investigating the Mafia.When I was picked I was a little scared. This investigation was a five year case in Philadelphia. I can't talk about the case,but it was about drug trafficking. The Mafia man came into court with there silk suits and the FBI agents came into court with there undercover clothes.A couple of high power Attorney's testified about a front Title Company being set up for a drug dealer to buy a house cash and make it look like he had a mortgage.The other lawyer was question about taking money to the Bahamas for this family. I noticed the lawyers got special treatment.The Mafia family involved is big in New Jersey and Philadelphia.

This is how the Attorney General works, they arrest the little guys and give them deals if they give up information about the ranking heads of the Mafia. What was interesting hearing about how the Mafia guys blew a million dollars of there drug profits at the race track.

I don't know how the indictments went because I moved to Ind., before the end of l6 months.

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8. So far your experience takes the cake, for a minute there I thought

you were going to mention the Bushies.