>From "This is True":
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>After Michael J. McDermott received a summons to appear as a
>juror for a drunk driving trial in Somers, N.Y., he realized
>it conflicted with an important work engagement. He wrote the
>Jury Commissioner asking for a deferral, citing an excuse the
>Commissioner probably hadn't heard before: "I will be
>ineligible to serve," McDermott wrote, "as I am the presiding
>judge on this case." Unfortunately for Judge McDermott, that
>is not among the officially allowable excuses to get out of
>jury duty in New York. However, the Commissioner granted him a
>deferral anyway.
>Yep.......same goes for here in Los Angeles. I know of a Judge who couldn't get out of jury duty. In the end he found it very interesting to be in the box to the right instead of front and center. --------------------------------------------------------
"Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave
safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, totally worn out, shouting..Holy Shit!!
What a Ride!!"
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