That was the Sumter County case. The judge was telling the people in the pool of prospective jurors that they probably would be going on a field trip to see the scene of the accident which had resulted in a death.

Can you imagine what would happen in a Courthouse if I start talking about seeing 224s and 613s in movies for the past 30 years or so and had thought it had something to do with my efforts to improve the odds for survivors/victims of crimes working from my own experiences in law, public, and academic libraries? I would soon be Baker acted. I had tried it out on some potential girlfriends and had not seen nor heard much from them after that.

That is a big reason why I e-mail the Sumter County Clerk of the Court and cross my fingers and why I was so terse in my answers in the Federal Court in Ocala in 2009. Off to the funny farm with yah!

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I did in Ohio, it was a 90 day commitment. We listened to 2 to 3 cases per day. I forget the pay but it barely covered lunch. We met 2nd and 4th Tuesday and Thursday every month. It was very interesting but for me it became too much, eventually I was let go. We had around 20 people on this jury.

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As an aside we lived across the street from the Grand Jury Foreman in Reno, Nevada in the 1970s. I think they were still there in 1984 when I helped my parents move to Scottsdale, Arizona.


What do I mean by all this empowerment of survivors/victims of crimes?

Things like the links above from the Washoe County Sheriff's Office in Northern Nevada made available in your home town Sheriff's Office. Check your home town Sheriff's office or any other LEO where you came from. That was and is what my 224 613 Project looks like. In February of 1976 I was looking for something to help my fellow Earl Wooster High School students deal with the 2-24-1976 murder investigation in libraries in Northern Nevada. Look how far they have come.

Our pooch Ashes was a very high strung Dalmatian who would run across the street whenever she could to go see the Grand Jury Foreman of Washoe County. She moved to Scottsdale, Arizona with my parents and then went to Rohnert Park in Sonoma County where various movie production trailers would sometimes be parked at the Red Lion Inn. This was across a green from our house. This was a few hundred feet away. Ashes was around quite some time . And so were the movie production trailers. I had helped my parents move from Scottsdale to Rohnert Park in the Summer of 1986 just before leaving to attend law school at the University of Minnesota.