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Jury Doody
De JP Mac
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- JP Mac
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- Mar 26, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780991251919
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Who is the sockless man?
Find out in this satirical peek at justice in Los Angeles. During a domestic violence case, the author and eleven other jurors must sift conflicting evidence to uncover the truth: did the defendant strike his wife, or was she a coked-up loon who made eerie noises? What happened to the defendant's socks? Did a juror overhear the defendant ordering pizza--and how did that affect the final outcome? Can annoyed, busy strangers render a just verdict? Be a fly on the wall inside the jury room and witness the chaos as twelve strangers attempt to render justice with one eye on the clock. This short essay is the mandatory minimum you need for a fast fun read.
Informations sur le livre
Jury Doody
De JP Mac
Description
Who is the sockless man?
Find out in this satirical peek at justice in Los Angeles. During a domestic violence case, the author and eleven other jurors must sift conflicting evidence to uncover the truth: did the defendant strike his wife, or was she a coked-up loon who made eerie noises? What happened to the defendant's socks? Did a juror overhear the defendant ordering pizza--and how did that affect the final outcome? Can annoyed, busy strangers render a just verdict? Be a fly on the wall inside the jury room and witness the chaos as twelve strangers attempt to render justice with one eye on the clock. This short essay is the mandatory minimum you need for a fast fun read.
- Éditeur:
- JP Mac
- Sortie:
- Mar 26, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780991251919
- Format:
- Livre
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Jury Doody - JP Mac
JURY DOODY
by
JP MAC
JURY DOODY
Copyright 2013 JP Mac
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Published by Cornerstone Media
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
—H.L. Mencken
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Service Without a Smile
2. A Pocketful of Koreans
3. Pak Up Your Troubles
4. Judge Not and Ye Shall Not Go Home
5. Forget It, Jake. It’s Koreatown.
SERVICE WITHOUT A SMILE
At first, Monday morning went as expected. My name wasn't called for any panels. All around, prospective jurors spoke quietly, texted, read, or lined up to use five computers. Peace reigned in the jury room of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. I relaxed, enjoying a damn thick book. Suddenly, a jerk in the back of the room decided to watch a sit-com on his smart phone. Loud canned laugher overwrote the previous calm. I glanced up at the city clerks, but they murmured and checked computer screens and handed each other paper as if the matter were out of their hands, to be settled among jurors.
A guy near the front of the room popped out of his seat, stormed to the back of the room and chilled out the jerk. (Hey, excuse me, that’s a little intense. Do you have headphones? Huh? Do you?
) It was the most excitement I’d experienced in over two decades of jury duty. Relative silence returned, except for the periodic calling of names.
I’m hardly ever picked. The closest I'd ever come to serving on a jury was many years earlier when you could smoke in the hallway outside the jury room, putting your butts out in round, sand-filled ashtrays the diameter of a small pizza. Back in the day, I’d been sent to Traffic Court and was chosen for a panel on a drunk driving case. The prosecutor was a smarmy guy who tried getting us all to answer his questions in unison. Would this cheesy tactic pay off in deliberations? I can’t say, as the defendant took a plea bargain—a thoughtful, gracious criminal! Years passed. I’d arrive when summoned, read for a day,