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[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
My fave jury selection story goes like this........

While at my biggest big law I'm involved as behind the scenes on a trial of a grandma against a big company for copyright and trade dress. Our trial guy decides only he'll be in court. any help will come outside during breaks AND he dresses almost shabby.

He flush?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
He flush?

I think you know him. walks with a limp.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
No. I'd love to get on a jury and see what happens in the room. Though it might make me quit my job.

Ever done a mock trial where you can see the jurors deliberate via closed circuit tv? Ever sat in a room with fellow SAs while jurors referred to you as Rick Moranis?

I still haven't recovered.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Ever done a mock trial where you can see the jurors deliberate via closed circuit tv? Ever sat in a room with fellow SAs while jurors referred to you as Rick Moranis?

I still haven't recovered.

The next time I see you, I'm going to make you sing "Close to You" a capella.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
the pm was going to be about box wine.

Send it to Penske. That's his area. Although I would skip the ones he says are "cheap but fruity," and definitely skip the ones he says are OK if you stir in a little vodka.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The next time I see you, I'm going to make you sing "Close to You" a capella.

Hey, I'm not that skinny.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
What is the book about?

The jacket says that it's the story of the key players leading up to 9/11, meaning bin Laden, Zawahiri, Prince Turki (the head of Saudi intel), and John O'Neill (the FBI guy who became the WTC head of security shortly before 9/11). IMHO, the book is much better at telling bin Laden's story and Zawahiri's story than with the other two, but we haven't really gotten into that yet on the PB. The author is a staff writer at the New Yorker, and some of the book was published there first.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by SEC_Chick
That only works if they ask you questions. Last time I was picked for jury duty the only question I answered was the one about whether anyone was a lawyer. They asked me what kind of law I practiced and made sure it wasn't criminal. I was shocked that I had to sit in a week-long trial for child molestation.

Of course, anyone who claimed to have been molested was dismissed, but there were a bunch of those already and it felt wrong to lie about something like that when the woman next to me went up to the judge in tears. Maybe if I had said I do some white collar stuff in connection with the securities I would have been dismissed.

When I was in law school, I did a criminal clinical program. I got to do criminal defense work for course credit. (SJC Rule 3.03, I think).

Anyway, I got called to jury duty in the very courthouse in which I appeared. I walked into the jury room and the bailiff said "Brazen, whatchoo doing here?" I told them I'd been called for jury duty and he laughed and told me the judge wouldn't let me sit.

Sure enough, I walked into the courtroom and the judge looked over the bench at me and said "Miss Brazen, what are you doing here this morning?"

I told him I'd been called for jury duty. He said "No attorney who appears in my courtroom sits on my juries. You can go now."

I should have been happy to have the extra time to myself. Instead, I went home and took a nap.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Ever done a mock trial where you can see the jurors deliberate via closed circuit tv? Ever sat in a room with fellow SAs while jurors referred to you as Rick Moranis?

I still haven't recovered.

Yes on the first. But that's the Reader's Digest version of the deliberations after the Cliff Notes of the trial.

Don't understand the second question.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The next time I see you, I'm going to make you sing "Close to You" a capella.

Can you give me a couple of minutes to run away first?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
When I was in law school, I did a criminal clinical program. I got to do criminal defense work for course credit. (SJC Rule 3.03, I think).

Anyway, I got called to jury duty in the very courthouse in which I appeared. I walked into the jury room and the bailiff said "Brazen, whatchoo doing here?" I told them I'd been called for jury duty and he laughed and told me the judge wouldn't let me sit.

Sure enough, I walked into the courtroom and the judge looked over the bench at me and said "Miss Brazen, what are you doing here this morning?"

I told him I'd been called for jury duty. He said "No attorney who appears in my courtroom sits on my juries. You can go now."

I should have been happy to have the extra time to myself. Instead, I went home and took a nap.

Obviously, the judge and the bailiff both thought you were hot.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Can you give me a couple of minutes to run away first?

she'll give you the heads up. and some lead time.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I like it, but like RT I've almost always left a state before they summon me.

Your luck will change sooner or later.



[edited to correct horrendous typo.]

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No one has ever left the board because of me.

That makes you a pathetic failure.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Your luck will change sooner or later.

Not always, "almost always."


edited to obviate [sic]--Burger