On 2025-11-12 12:02 a.m., super70s wrote:

On 2025-11-12 03:50:06 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:52:56 -0600, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

I was seated for a case a couple of weeks ago involving a former Little
Caesar's employee who was accused of ripping the store off of $1,700,
we found her not guilty. Lots of in-store and bank video snippets but
not enough evidence for guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

She stood at the courthouse door and thanked the jury as they left the
building, never heard of anyone doing that before.

Are you talking about the accused or the judge? I've seen the latter,
never the former.

It was the defendant, I couldn't imagine a judge walking downstairs to
thank jurors as they exited even in my town.

On TV dramas, the judge always thanks the jurors right in the courtroom
after they've rendered the verdict. Are you saying that doesn't happen
in real life?

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Rhino

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On 11/12/2025 3:05 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 11/11/2025 4:52 PM, super70s wrote:

On 2025-11-10 19:40:52 +0000, BTR1701 said:

On Nov 10, 2025 at 7:21:06 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>> wrote:

I've got jury duty again, this time in federal court. Trump has security >>>>> fencing around the courthouse but there were no protestors.

The pool is for both civil and criminal. When I was summoned for state >>>>> court, it was just criminal.

Tomorrow is a federal holiday. I think I'm on call for the rest of the >>>>> week.

Now that I'm retired, I wish they'd call me for jury duty. When you
have all
the time in the world, that's when they start ignoring you.

I happen to be in the pool for a local circuit court jury from Oct.-Dec. >>>
I was seated for a case a couple of weeks ago involving a former Little
Caesar's employee who was accused of ripping the store off of $1,700, we >>> found her not guilty. Lots of in-store and bank video snippets but not
enough evidence for guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

She stood at the courthouse door and thanked the jury as they left the
building, never heard of anyone doing that before.

$1700 ? I wonder whose cost-effective pursuit that was.

Probably their profit for a month

...and seems like the sort of thing "shrinkage" was coined for.



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On 2025-11-12 16:29:29 +0000, Rhino said:

On 2025-11-12 12:02 a.m., super70s wrote:

On 2025-11-12 03:50:06 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:52:56 -0600, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

I was seated for a case a couple of weeks ago involving a former Little >>>> Caesar's employee who was accused of ripping the store off of $1,700,
we found her not guilty. Lots of in-store and bank video snippets but
not enough evidence for guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

She stood at the courthouse door and thanked the jury as they left the >>>> building, never heard of anyone doing that before.

Are you talking about the accused or the judge? I've seen the latter,
never the former.

It was the defendant, I couldn't imagine a judge walking downstairs to
thank jurors as they exited even in my town.

On TV dramas, the judge always thanks the jurors right in the courtroom after they've rendered the verdict. Are you saying that doesn't happen
in real life?

Certainly not, I'm saying I've never seen a judge in real life or on TV
walk outside the courtoom, down the stairs and stand at the courthouse
door thanking jurors.


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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

. . .

They said they don't usually empanel juries later in the week but told
us to call at the end of the day on Wednesday to see if we are on call
for Thursday.

I was not on call for Thursday nor Friday. I'm done.

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:02:19 -0600, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

Are you talking about the accused or the judge? I've seen the latter,
never the former.

It was the defendant, I couldn't imagine a judge walking downstairs to
thank jurors as they exited even in my town.

In the aforementioned jury call when I was dismissed on a defence
challenge the judge did thank me but then he DID stay at his bench.

I was pleasantly surprised he did that much - and him leaving the
courtroom to thank anybody would be shocking.

I just checked with the court sheriff that my part in things were done
and as soon as he said yes hot-footed it out of there. Got myself a
nice breakfast and went it to work. (They said they weren't expecting
to see me till late afternoon - I just told them I got lucky - nobody
heard what REALLY happened but my wife)

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On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:08:06 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

The three times since then that I've gotten the jury service summons,
I've sent in a request to be excused, which were all granted, so I
didn't have to bother going at all.

I did request compassionate deferment once - but then I was running
the family business, my parents had been on a buying trip 2000 miles
away, dad was parallel parking their RV (which they had taken most of
the gear out to maximize the space for merchandise) and while parallel
parking the motor home hit the gas when he was going for the break,
causing the RV to take off like a bat out of hell and in the process
giving my mother fatal injuries.

I >didn't< ask to be excused - just to be deferred for 6 weeks. This
was a spectacular enough situation one of the senior court people had
heard of our situation and told the judge to give me the deferral
requested. In the end I got assigned to a civil case which was
"settled on the courthouse steps" and "deferral" became "excusal"

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