Because of my gall bladder problem, I missed my jury duty service with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. I have been called again for April 21, 2005. But I am a little sad that it might not be as dramatic as I had hoped. No one will be saying, “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit!”
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It is just another reminder that we are all mortal.
Just pray its not a case involving defective condoms.
Hey, c’mon Roger, it can be as dramatic as you want to make it. Just bring up all the stuff you saw on CSI and Law and Order. After the first week or so of deliberations, the other eleven people will thank you for it, honest…
What a shame that Cochran died before Nichole and Ron’s murderer was apprehended. I wonder how his argumentative skills worked when he arrived at his permanent destination.
John Donne was wrong.
I have just recently served a six months tour on the Grand Jury of the 142nd District Court of Texas.
I think I would have paid the court $15 per session to sit there instead of the other way around! It’s grand entertainment and the ultimate reality show. Besides the obvious tragedy involved in some of the cases what struck me was the blithering idiot stupidity of most of the “criminals”. Like the master mind who stole bunches of credit cards, then charged them up on the Internet and 18 times at his neighborhood Pizza Hut….and had all the loot sent to his home address. Brilliant.
I hope you have a better class of criminals in L.A.
Wallace ó Criminals aren’t smart, they’re mostly just willing to do things other people have considered and refrained from doing… for good reason.
Dumbest one I ever saw pulled a purse snatching… on the Staten Island Ferry… in mid-harbor. I swear to God, as we pulled into the dock with all the red and blue lights flashing there, he was standing there looking at all of us ringing him and I still don’t think he’d figured out what was wrong with his plan…
Poor Johnnie Cochran. Now he’ll miss it when OJ finally nabs the real killer.
Roger, I can understand why CA is a wealth of creative material for you, but geez, you wouldn’t be thinking of moving within say, the next decade???
Found this via No Pasaran, just going by the content:
Thanks to ueberblogger John Ray, the Emir of Blogistan, we find this bit of divine environmental illumination:
´CALIFORNIA REGULATORS WANT TO CONTROL THE AIR INSIDE YOUR HOMEª
´Candles and stoves are in their sights. Burning ANYTHING inside your home may soon be a No-Noª
´The California agency famous for putting the squeeze on automotive tailpipe emissions is poised to tackle dirty indoor air. In a hefty report to the Legislature completed this month, the California Air Resources Board asserts that indoor air can be as polluted and dangerous to breathe as outdoor air, costing the state at least $45 billion a year in lost worker productivity, medical expenses and premature deaths…ª
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Candles, no, pot yes???
He might not go, but Lebanon’s getting interesting again.
Via Rantburg:
Salt to taste.
DEBKAfile exclusive military sources report complete collapse of pro-Syrian political and intelligence structure in Lebanon and abrupt withdrawal of all Syrian commands including key figure military intelligence chief General Ghazaleh. Pro-Syrian Lebanese PM Karame backs out of forming new government in Beirut. Lebanese secret service chief Gen. Raymond Azar has fled to Paris. Internal Security Forces head Gen. Ali al-Hajj about to quit.
Looks like Debka’s got it at least partially right on this one. We’ve got the article on Azar, from Beirut Daily Star, and the Karami story from several sources. Al-Jizzles is leading with it. Haven’t seen the one on al-Hajj, but I’ll take their word for it. Ghazaleh, I don’t know about, but it looks like the tipping point’s coming. Lahoud’s hanging tough, though…
Maybe you’ll get a totally justified prosecution made possible because of Patriot Act police powers…
I’m guessing that if you describe you’re profession as “Screenwriter, novelists, blogger…” at least two of the judge, prosecutor and defense counsel will find a reason to keep you off the jury.
On the other hand, the jury system certain needs more people with a clue, and it would make for entertaining reading.
Well, I won’t shed any tears for Cochran. I had dealings with the man (he lent his name to law firm I had cases against)and the few times I met him, he was pushy and arrogant, solely on the basis that HE was Johnny Cochran.
Johnny Cochran became rich and a public figure by shamelessly stoking the fires of racial resentment in this country. That he did so in the service of a man who butchered two innocent people, without at least the fig leaf of a concern for social welfare makes his actions even worse.
I cry no tears for him.
The death of Johnnie Cochran should be reported under “Community Improvements”, not in the usual obituary section. That goes for the rest of O.J.’s defense team, as well.
My college son, the wit, hypothesized Mr. Cochran standing at the Pearly Gates and saying to St. Peter, “If the gates are closed, I’ve been misdiagnozed!”