Yeah, Kat, I figure they`ll boot me if I voice my views about prisons (the entire system is deeply flawed (with apologies to our Buffista lawyers) and the punitive end of it particularly so, especially as regards minorities). But I don`t know how that would play out, empathy for the accused, empathy for the victim, in the actual courtroom.
 
I was joking today that the case I get will probably be that of our little local former fire chief who was accused of having stolen about a million dollars from our station, leaving firefighters unpaid and us without a fire station, during which time our neighborhood bar burned down. And then I`ll be all JAIL, SUCKA!

Walter's a toe licker. He does the occasional drive-by as well as occasionally settling in for some serious lickage. I don't mind, and he's pretty good about stopping if the lickee objects.

Ooh, wifi. I bet my county superior court doesn`t have wifi. But maybe I should bring the laptop anyway? Will they let me? And importantly, the website says I can, nay should, bring my knitting. So I need to get that into a workable bag.

Trudy, backsent. (Short answer: yes, with a but).

I've only been called for criminal court, I think, and they were: sexual assault or domestic violence (pled out while we were there), drugs (I was on the jury, and we hung), sexual assault (pled out after I got put on the jury), and some regular assault, I think (I got released after talking about the guy I know who was in prison). So I guess I've been in the jury-selection pool every time I've gone, but only actually served on the one jury.

I`m worried I`ll be the person responsible for a hung jury! I`ll be singlehandedly subverting justice! The victim`s day in court will all be for naught! OR I`ll convict wrongly and years from now the person will show up in my drug rehab class and will be all You! OR I`ll rightfully convict, causing infinite pain for a wife and family who are somewhere innocent of all this!
 
See what I mean re: Brane, shut up!?

Really, if you tell the lawyers all that, they will probably let you go. ;)

I was sort of responsible for the hung jury, but it was one woman who refused to convict -- she should never have been on the jury because she didn't believe anything the cops said. But I wrote the letter that made the judge let us go home.

I find it odd that I've never served on a jury. When I lived in Virginia, I was only called once, and only got as far as lining up before the defendant copped a plea. I had assumed that it was because I was a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth, but I haven't been called in DC either. I have a driver's license, I own a car, I own real property, and I vote. Three years and counting, and nary a peep. It's weird, because DC is notorious for calling people every two years like clockwork.

My new living/dining room!! [link]

Gorgeous Aims! Love the colours.

OMG I feel like this whole weekend was pretty "normal family".

Yay! I hope you have many more days like these ahead.

IO animal news, Darb just walked in to the room, licked my big toe three or four times, and walked back out. Okaay.

Testing for doneness?

All I have to do is tell them my mentally ill brother has been in prison and it's colored my belief in that system as a defacto warehouse for the mentally ill. Pretty sure nobody wants to see me on a jury.

I've been called three times but only ever sat around in the jury lounge waiting to be called. Hated it due to the proximity of Other People and lack of wifi.