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3 Lost Days
By Scott | October 3, 2009
Somehow I’ve been lucky to not have been selected in the past for jury duty. The first couple of summons I did get I got excused because I had already had airline tickets for a vacation. However this last time I had no choice but to show up at 8:15am on a Monday morning for jury duty. By 10:30am I was selected to serve on a jury and the trial started like 15 minutes later. After hearing the opening remarks of the prosecutor it seemed to me this would be an open and shut case. Boy was I wrong and by the end of day two several witnesses had testified and the jury had heard at least three different versions of the incident.
Something I did learn was that if you get involved in a bar ruckus and get hurt you best call the police right away at the scene. Also you better hope you get a good detective that takes lots of notes and photographs. In this case the victim didn’t contact the police till later and the detective only did a couple short phone interviews. There was just one small evidence photo of the injury taken days later just after the surgery. In his opening remarks the prosecutor noted the victim had several drinks in the hours beforehand. However during his testimony the victim claimed he was fine at the time and was far from being lit up. Hmmm … that’s interesting because much of the prosecutors case was hinged around the theme that the amount of force used was excessive given the victim’s helpless condition. In the end the jury found the defendant not guilty because they believed he was going to the defense of another.
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