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To: LindyBill who wrote (280764)	11/15/2008 5:24:33 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 794335

Easy way out in a criminal trial is to tell the Attorneys either that you are pro or anti police. As a matter of fact, one of the vetting questions asked was "Do you give any more weight to the testimony of a police officer than you do to other witnesses?" I gave the correct answer, no. And got selected. It was a waste. The rest of us couldn't convince the jury foreman that the defendant's own testimony that he had consumed 13 beers less than an hour before driving under a logging truck was sufficient evidence that he was drunk and guilty of the DUI charge. The jury hung up on the jerk of a foreman. I was so enraged I had to go see my pastor to calm down. I thought of the jury service as a sacred civic duty. It was a severe disappointment that our jury failed and completely against my objective-driven mindset.