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To: Ilaine who wrote (39436)	10/8/1999 10:59:00 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<As for being treated like cattle, there's no excuse for mistreatment, but we aren't supposed to have personal contact, so of course it's going to feel impersonal.>> It's not the impersonal part, it's things like not being able to but what you want for lunch. Now with the smoking rules it's worse. The judge can smoke in chamber, the defendant can smoke in the holding room or outside if he's got bail, lawyers have smoking privileges in the restrooms but if a juror lights up in a restroom it's $100. Plus the threats. They never just explain something, it's always a threat. I looked forward to being on a jury the first time but no more. Here they pool from drivers licenses instead of the registered voters.

To: Ilaine who wrote (39436)	10/8/1999 3:16:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 71178

I loved being on a jury. We had two lawyers (one retired from the City's Corporate Counsel office) and a brother of a policeman. A pitiful little Japanese-American man was being tried for DUI. The prosecuting witness cop showed up in full motorcycle leathers, helmet, myriad little leather cases, 8 feet tall, dark shades, cut military corners. We ate like kings, earned $45 a day, and on the first day of deliberations the cop's brother on the jury referred to the cop as "Robocop" and we acquitted the poor fellow ten minutes later, laughing all the time. I love the American justice system. It's better than TV.