Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 18, 2019

Guilty or Not Guilty. Depends on who buys the first round ( or tenth round )

It will be a hungover jury.

Order in the court!

I’ll have a dry martini.

Shouldn’t there be a prisoner at the bar?

We find the defendant guiltocent, I mean innowilty, I mean good golly.

That jury is only a six pack.

Trouble is, they keep excusing themselves to use the restroom.

…so the jury is taking the fifth

I object, there are no olives for the martini’s/

Some of the awards that I’ve seen out of juries make it seem like they were seriously inebriated!

Old saying, supposedly originated in Chicago: Anyone that would put their faith in 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty deserves their fate! Jurors are paid a pittance to decide life or death issues, while election judges are paid up to $200 for the day. Something is seriously wrong here!

Only 6 instead of 12 because they will be seeing double?Or because they are having doubles?

I thought only lawyers got called to the bar.

Bar at the bar !

Think of all the drinking games you could come up with!

The comments are fun… no arguments there!

This is my opening farewell.

Since March 22 I – LameHawk – have been boycotted by GoComics. My comments and likes can be seen only by me. I have absolutely no idea as to the reasoning behind GoComics’ decision. I have enjoyed the cartoons and the comments, and don’t understand why I have been censored. I find it rather odd and have thus decided to close my account by tomorrow. So, goodbye GoComics

Requiescat in pace

14 if u count the 2 alternates

A venue where cases are tried – and emptied.

Serving up tall, frosty mugs of justice!

Italian beef sandwiches; OR at least a couple of bowls of popcorn…

Lots of great comments today

U don’t buy beer, u just rent it

It must be a short trial. Only half the jurors.

Add free computer access and WIFI. And no one will ever want to back out.

It was a civil jury or at least until they began drinking!

And suddenly it gets hard to convict for drunk driving.

Finally, Justice is served.

Several studies have shown you’re more likely to get a guilty verdict from a jury or judge in the afternoon than in the morning (the more tired you are, the more likely to convict). That’s not a blindfold on lady justice, it’s a sleep mask.

Aha. I’ve always wondered why it was called the “bar”.

Wiley did draw 12 jurors, in vino veritas 6 are in glasses.

That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Last time I was on a jury I was the foreman trying to get my hung jury to get a verdict in by 4:30 on a Friday afternoon. This might have helped, although the fact that they had to get done to leave for the local pub may have been an incentive.

Where’s the piano?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXkGU_FwRLg Lehto’s Law on jury selection

“Ihf he paysh for it, we musht acquit…”

If they are deliberating on a DWI charge, I’m afraid the jury is biased.

I was on a jury in a civil case involving a young woman who had suddenly gone truly insane and was endangering her children. Her husband was trying to get custody of the children. The mother clearly loved her kids. We, the jury, finally took her kids away from her. It was the most heart rending thing I have ever done. It was the correct decision but left me depressed for a while.

Sat on one jury, the guy bit a guy’s nose off in a bar fight (that he started) and claimed self-defense. Despite having been a law enforcement officer, his lawyer let me on. His buddy testified he started the fight, with friends to back him up. I pointed this out to the jurors who wanted to let him off, and that the injury could have been fatal. (Also an EMT) Ended up giving him 5 years in jail for assault. Turns out after, that this was the third person he’d bitten, including a cop arresting him, and a young woman he attacked. His defense lawyer (we’re a small town) never wanted my on a jury again.

Too bad this is only here. I have Jury Duty next month.

Some of the best comments today that I’ve ever seen…kudos!

With that perk, there wouldn’t be just 6 jurors, but 66 or more…

“May we see you at sidebar, your Honor?”

There’s a high-profile case starting here in Hawaii. They decided they need a jury pool of over four hundred people to find just twelve that doesn’t have an opinion of the case already.

Some court cases only have 6 to 8. I can see it working for some. Especially if the alcohol isn’t cheap.

Now they need to put in a restroom that’s less than 12 steps away…

Jury duty? I’m IN!

I was on jury duty once, a criminal case but a very simple one (eluding the police). There were either 6 or 8 on the jury (can’t recall), but certainly not 10 or 12. It lasted two days. My employer (a hospital) was kind enough to pay me my regular wages for those two days, which was a real help to me. (I did have to give them the check for $20 or whatever that the court gave me, which was certainly fine with me, lol!) I found it touching that the judge gave us all nice certificates for doing our civic duty. I still have it.

Gives new meaning to “passing the bar…”

No idea what state YOU live in, but in mine, ID has to be checked, regardless of age or what they’re drinking, as soon as they enter the premises. Underage people can’t be in the building at all, for any reason that doesn’t involve serious blood loss. That’s the law. If the liquor inspector comes in and checks ID, which is what they do, anyone who doesn’t have a license on them gets thrown out, and the owner is fined. An underage drinker earns themselves legal charges, and the owner a fat fine and the first of the 3 strikes that would cause them to lose their liquor license for life. A fake license will get the holder in serious trouble, and various penalties against the owner, depending on the quality of the fake.