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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (12217)	4/23/2001 4:39:59 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

BTW, did you get off the jury? No jury today, but I still have a couple of weeks of opportunity to test out my book. Maybe I'll even get to finish reading it. I also carried a fan and flapped it furiously. That was mostly due to the heat. It's 90 degrees today and the big buildings haven't switched over to a/c yet. But I also figured it might make me look a little odd. I'm sure I sound like a terrible citizen. But I've done my time. I've been on plenty of juries, my very first one still haunts me, and the conflicts of cultural values in the deliberations are more than I can stand sometimes. In Virginia, the jury decides the sentence. I can cope with the guilt/innocence thing. That's more matter of fact. But the sentencing is gut wrenching. I once served on a jury where we found the defendant guilty of prostitution and sodomy in no time at all and then spent maybe another day and a half or so on the sentence, much of the delay my doing, because about half the jury wanted to give that woman the maximum penalty on each count--six years. I'm sure I'll be on a couple of juries during my term. I just hope they're civil. I've never been chosen for a civil case, only criminal. At least that would be something different. Karen