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One of the things they ask you is how you feel about DUI. I feel quite strongly about it. One of my high school classmates was injured badly by a drunk driver. One of my coworkers has a brother who was killed by one. I kicked my father-in-law out of the house for doing it.
Implication: I vote for jail time for drunk drivers. So... unless you've got very good evidence that your client was actually not drunk... they've got a problem. I don't care that "nothing happened" during the alleged drunk driving tour. It's something I think one should simply not do. Ever.
That last call to jury duty was for a narcotics DUI case. This was of course after Jentina had lived here, and worked in a pharmacy. Did she talk about drugs? Yes. So I got bounced out pretty quickly. I was glad to get out of that one, because it would have screwed up a weekend of work.
On the whole, I'm happy to serve on a jury, just please let the timing be good. I've never been asked though; the screening filters me out. I could get dragged into other kinds of trials, like murder or carjacking, things they'd ask me to be neutral about.
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