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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I did not know how to explain to the judge, various attorneys, fellow jurors, potential jurors and the others in the Courtroom my 224 613 Project. Thus the short answers. Now I just e-mail the Clerk of the Court when I get Jury Summons. The Judge in Sonoma County California for that Jury Summons seemed to know who I was. This was back around 1994. I have received several Sumter County Jury Summons over the 20 years when have lived here in the Villages. With Pinellas County they asked if anyone had legal training or worked in the legal system while we were in a common room. Sent everyone who said yes by raising a hand --out the door!
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The law library in the Pinellas County Criminal Court building or whatever the proper title is had next to nothing available for survivors/victims of crimes looking for information about their rights and responsibilities. I had been looking in libraries of all kinds since late February 1976 when I was hoping to find something to help my fellow Earl Wooster High School students deal with the 2-24-1976 murder investigation involving the death of Michelle Mitchell who was one of the daughters of our English teacher. Michelle was a nursing student who attended the University of Nevada, Reno . 2-24 is also my birthday. I found very little at the huge U of Minnesota Law Library unless you asked the reference librarian to help you find it . They finally got the right person in the 2-24-1976 killing of Michelle Mitchell in 2014 due to a DNA test on a cigarette butt in the person of Rodney Halbower. Halbower is a serial murderer and rapist.
613 is the number I had in a 17 week study on stress in the unemployed conducted by the University of California San Francisco Health Science Campus in late 1992-1993. I had told my interviewer a lot about my experiences pushing for better materials accessible in libraries for survivors/victims of crimes. She did say my ideas were worthwhile but waited until I was done with the study to say anything.
Now though there is a lot online.