[103325] in Cypherpunks
Jury duty considered harmful, or at least rare
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Wed Sep 23 03:36:35 1998
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980922231122.00907100@idiom.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:09:30 -0700
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 11:11 PM -0700 9/22/98, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Yeah. The times I've known the facts in cop-vs-citizen cases,
>the cops have often been lying; I have to assume that they're often lying
>in cases when I don't know the facts as well. Of course, getting
>somebody with that kind of attitude about cops onto a jury
>is somewhat unlikely, but occasionally you'll find neutrals.
I last served on a jury in 1973, 25 years ago, no doubt before many readers
of Cypherpunks were born.
And I've only received a single _possible_ summons since, in the 25 years
since that one jury appearance.
Yet some of the apolitical numbskulls I know about have served on several
juries in the same time. The Poisson, as expected, or something more human?
Jury nullifying minds want to know.
--Tim May
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