You can only do this once, but you can get out of jury duty by saying "I looked up the case beforehand".
You can only do this once, but you can get out of jury duty by saying "I looked up the case beforehand".
Just saved myself a few hours with that one.
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If you don't want to get on a jury in an attempt to throw the trial then you are a huge lib
If you want to pay my wages while I'm fucking around in court, be my guest.
Here, juryduty pays minimum wage, so if you're unemployed it's a pretty good deal. Never saw it happen though
"Real" crimes (that are currently prosecuted in AES states and would continue to be prosecuted if a worldwide communist revolution succeeded tomorrow) do happen. An unfortunately common example is domestic violence. Committing to throw any trial in favor of the defense is contrarianism, not a theoretically sound approach for how one might wring some actual justice out of our shitty legal system.
That goes without saying. You could also be in a situation where you intentionally cause a mistrial because everyone else wants to let the abuser go.