Dammit...........
They have three trials this week. The way it works in Wakulla County is that they put 14 potential jurists in the chairs, then the attorneys select 7 from them. I always though it was "tried by 12"? In any event, I was in the group with the first trial, and got sticken from the jurists. That was was scheduled for Wednesday, which wasn't too bag. But when I got struck from the jurists, I figured, well, they have numbers 1 thru 100 here, with 14 potentials for each trial, that is 42 people they will cycle through, so I'm off the hook. But DARN if I didn't get called up there again for the third trial. So over 50 people got OFF even showing up? So I noticed that on the first trial, they picked people who didn't seem to be the sharpest knives in the drawer. And on the second trial, they picked all women jurists.
Since it was the state versus the OP in all three cases, the same attorneys were there for all three cases.
I figured I can get out of this one EASY. First off, I'm not a woman. Secondly, I noted the prosecuting attorney stated the case as being an attempt to prove the
willful battery from the defendant, and yet later on, she stated that the jury could not base their decision on INTENT, only the FACTS of the case. So I asked her what the difference was between "INTENT" and "WILLFUL"..... And she said SHE DIDN'T KNOW!!!! She got that deer in the headlight look on her! I figured, hot damn! She's going to strike me for sure!
So the defense attorney comes up and she grills ME about my question to the other attorney! And stated some examples to see what my response was. I had the entire court cracking up with my answers! Even before that, the judge was asking a bunch of questions to the jurors, and when he got to me, he was kind of kidding around when he asked if I had still never been a juror before and I quipped "Well, your honor, I got REAL close earlier this morning" which had the courtroom laughing as well. I figured NO ONE in their right mind was going to take me seriously. Which on thinking about it, maybe just made me appear to be a dull knife in the drawer.......
Plus I was giving the defendant the Clint Eastwood squinty glare...... figuring they would see that and get the heebie-jeebies about me being on the jury.
I figured NO WAY they were going to pick me! But damned if I didn't get picked. And on top of that, I had tentative plans to go out of town on Thursday and GUESS WHAT DAY the trial is? Yep. Thursday. Damned Murphy's Law strikes again.
Double dammit..........
and plead guilty to manslaughter. A waste of 2 days that I could have worked. Guess my # will come up again here before long.
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