So, it must be hunting season, I get a Jury duty letterl

JC -- you should be OK for this year. From what I read on the Ministry website -- if you were registered last month (Sept 2012) the court cases are next year. But it could screw up your next year's hunt...

http://w w w.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/courts/jury/geninfo.asp
 
I know if you are any sort of foreman/supervisor/manager, etc where you directly supervise people and you're not being there can impact their ability to work they are more likely to pass over you during the initial screaning
 
There's a hardship excuse...


your inability to hunt hurts your ability to feed your family, and therefore it would be undue hardship on your family to have you not hunting...
 
I agree with the folks who have served on jury duty in the past. Because of my profession, I am automatically excused from juries. Years ago my mom was the foreman of an assault trial. She proudly recounted to anyone who asked, how they found the man no guilty. Of all the judicial systems our 'goat rodeo' is what works for us.
 
ryan32 said:
Henry Fonda is that you ?

Interestingly enough i am in a police studies degree program at school , and in one of my courses we watched the film 12 angry men , which as a 19 y/o male was hugely interesting to me to see a film that was so well written and acted that it could be riveting even though there was only dialogue and not a single explosion.
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I just watched this tonight after reading through this thread- fascinating!
 
H4831 said:
Lineofsight, you bring up some good points. I never saw anyone ask to approach the judge, but it does seem reasonable.
It was mentioned about being the only one to defend a shooter. I was on a trial where a man was charged with a serious offence against a girl. The vast majority wanted to convict him, but after hearing all the evidence and judging the people invloved, I was firmly against conviction. I was the only one strongly against conviction to start with, and had I been quiet he would have quickly been convicted. One juror said if we didn't hurry up, we would not get home that day. My reply was then we continue tomorrow. They gradually changed, until the man walked free! One thing we all agreed on was that the poor guy had an extremely poor lawyer, and that figured in our reasoning to not convict!
What is scary is so many jurors taking a couldn't-care-less attitude about the guy sitting there with a serious charge against him. In the case I mentioned, some wanted to just convict him, so we could go home!
But I fought on, gradually gaining help and later, even some of the jurors who wanted to convict him, agreed they thought he really was not guilty.
Being a juror is a serious event.
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I had a similar thing happen when I served on a jury. There wasn't enough evidence against the guy, but over half wanted to convict him because "he must have done other stuff" and since he was a "bad" man he deserved to be convicted. It took two days to convince these goofs that we could only convict with the evidence at hand and for the charges against him. Duhh. Go, do your duty.Otherwise you leave the job to nit wits. If you get charged do you want nit wits on your jury?
Red.
 
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