Jury Duty is archaic. Jurors should be paid a decent wage. On specialty cases - think of it this way - if the attorneys can't get it straight, how do they expect a lay person to ??? Totally antiquated system. Jurors should be professionals or picked with some background or knowledge - relative to the case - to decide a person's fate.
IMHO

I agree.

I had a friend who was a fellow Philosophy major at the University of Nevada, Reno and he was good at poetry and speaking Spanish.

He would sometimes try to get me to go out with him on his evening adventures but I declined as some of them were a bit illegal. One of these was that he picked up or tried to pick up the wife of a very jealous husband and that husband stabbed my friend multiple times in the heart area. He was dead for a few minutes but must have been lucky with the speed of the first responders as they got him back or maybe he died in the hospital or in the ambulance.

He lost his use of Spanish and really had to work on Philosophy.

There was a jury trial of the jealous husband for attempted murder and the jury found it was heat of the moment and not an intentional act. So the guy got off very light and the defense lawyer made a big thing about the proximity of Mustang Ranch a legal brothel near Reno just outside the Washoe County line.

This friend and I went to the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark a year or so after that and I was terrified that he would have a post traumatic experience with the knife welding thug facing off with Indiana Jones but he thought it was hilarious especially when Indiana shot him.

I checked up on him at his small house once in a while and arrived without notice and he seemed a little nervous but did show me his collection of love letters and how he would sometimes correct the potential suitors grammar and send them back to the senders.

In walked one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen and I was soon shown the door after my friend introduced us. I did notice that she had a good sized wedding ring on her finger.

I soon stopped coming to check up on my friend as he seemed to be up to his old tricks. He was more attracted to already taken women than the many ones he had available to him.

I checked up on him on Facebook and encountered one of his ex-wives who said he still in 2018 marched to his own drummer. We had a strange exchange that I posted something about him and she made a comment and I asked how would you know that and she replied that she was his ex-wife.

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The food service partnership that I was sometimes an assistant manager at had two people running it and one of these would later become the warden at the Lovelock Correctional Facility where O.J. Simpson was held for 9 years.

We talked about crime and punishment quite a bit that first summer around 1977 (?) when I worked at Bower's Mansion concession stand near their swimming pool. I was with the other partner working the last day of this job in 1983 before I left for the U of Denver to get study for a MA in Librarianship. This was Memorial Day of 1983 when a snow bank fell into a mountain lake above and just the north of Bower's Mansion. It pushed a huge wall of mud, water, and debris down the mountain into Davis Creek.


I was very surprised when I googled this man's name and up pops all kinds of cases of so-and-so Lovelock inmate vs. this man.

I also worked a winter season at Sky Tavern for their Junior Ski Program for their lunch service and a few summers at the concession at the softball diamond at Idlewild Park in Reno, Nevada. These were while I was getting my two BAs and also taking some extra classes in various areas.

Jury Duty Number near 200.
 

I will have to call the Sumter County Court number for Jury Service to see if I would have been called. It is close to 200.

The instructions say to call a certain number tonight after 5 PM.

The Judge excused me due to taking care of some of my family members.

I would have liked to have served but we would have had to hire a nurse to come in and deal with stuff a few times a day.

Calling in ALL Prospective Jurors.
 

I just called the numbers for the prospective jurors for this trial season and the recorded message said that they need all the jurors. Not the exempt ones, of course.

I do wonder how it would have went yesterday if I had gone? Still would have been hard to go with all the responsibilities I have here in the Villages. Care taking can be hard and jury duty can take up a lot of time.

And what if you were selected to serve on a jury for a trial lasting 3 or 4 weeks? It sounds like it could be a significant problem for you. When I did serve on a jury in the early 1990's the trial did last 3 weeks. My manager at the time wasn't too happy, but i worked nights and weekends, and my employer paid me for all 3 weeks.

Fast forward to today...my current employer only pays employees for 10 days of jury duty. After that you have to "work it out with your manager." Probably means the employee would have to work nights and weekends to continue to get paid. Hopefully I won't have to experience another lengthy stint of jury duty as long as I am still working.

They probably would have dismissed me when I started going into all my connections to the legal system since a cop came to our Earl Wooster High School English classroom in March of 1976 to talk about recovering from the murder of our English teacher's daughter in late February of 1976. He spent a lot of that time complaining about how the media glorified criminals and talking about a horrible murder case from April of 1963 in which an Earl Wooster High School student committed the murder. One of the most brutal in Nevada history and still reads like something out of Jack the Ripper's crimes in London. And he really went into the details of how this Earl Wooster High School killed an English female Olympic skier living and working in Reno, Nevada. The cop demonstrated what not to do in front of a classroom of frightened teens.

I did e-mail the Court Clerk as not to blindside them with something like this. And then they nabbed the wrong person in 1979 in the murder of the teacher's daughter. She did make a false confession it turned out 35 years later but had been a paranoid schizophrenic at the time of the false confession. They did a DNA test on a cigarette at the crime scene and got the right person in Rodney Halbower in 2014. Halbower is linked to five murders of women and teen age girls in San Mateo County, CA in 1976.

This would still have been hard for me to talk about as the teacher's daughter was murdered on my birthday. So I am reminded of it a few times a day. Hard to talk about this especially in a room full of strangers. I did tell the Clerk of the Court about this in an e-mail.

Easy facts to check for them too. Quite a lot of media coverage of both of these murders connected to Earl Wooster High School. The London papers really sensationalized the 1963 murder sharing the nightmarish details. The Reno papers were more considerate. The national grocery store rags did what you would expect.

Earl Wooster High School former students.
 

Beside this monster Thomas Lee Bean, Earl Wooster High School has some very well known alumni. Greg LeMond (Class of 1979) the Tour de France winner over a number of years, for instance. His sister or one of them was in a few of my classes. Patty Sheehan, the golfer (Class of 1974) She was there before I started, however. I was Class of 1976 having taken correspondence courses my Junior year to get out of high school a year early with a small Michelle Mitchell Memorial Scholarship given to me by the family. I did miss Prom though. Greg LeMond - Wikipedia

Patty Sheehan - Wikipedia

I kind of wonder if the Jury Duty for this session is still going on?

The last I looked Bean is still in prison in Nevada. Access Denied

National Enquirer - Wikipedia That National Enquirer headline from April 8, 1963 is about the monster Thomas Lee Bean's crime in Reno, Nevada. It almost bankrupted the company from what I have read. Sick.