I wandered in from metaquotes, and have a thought -- I once opined that I had been to jury duty three times and never got picked for a case, and one of my friends said that that was probably because "you seem like you'd consider things carefully." Which I would. So I asked why that would be a problem, and he said, "think about it - if you were a lawyer, wouldn't you want someone on the jury that would be easily convinced one way or the other, rather than someone who would be always saying, 'now, wait a minute, let's look at this one detail here'?" ...It made sense.
Although the very best jury story I heard was from a guy I know who was a big JFK assassination conspiracy theory buff, and was sitting in voir dire in the early 90's -- and when the defense attorney stood up, it was JFK Jr. He said it was all he could do to stop himself from jumping up and interrupting everything to ask, "Hang on a second, I gotta know -- dude, what do you think of the single-bullet theory??"
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Date: 2006-02-27 07:55 pm (UTC)Although the very best jury story I heard was from a guy I know who was a big JFK assassination conspiracy theory buff, and was sitting in voir dire in the early 90's -- and when the defense attorney stood up, it was JFK Jr. He said it was all he could do to stop himself from jumping up and interrupting everything to ask, "Hang on a second, I gotta know -- dude, what do you think of the single-bullet theory??"