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Offline powderman

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Be gay, get out of jury duty.
« on: March 09, 2011, 08:13:48 AM »
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A gay man was excused from jury duty in New York last week because he said that discrimination against gays makes him a second-class citizen and therefore he couldn’t be impartial.

Jonathan D. Lovitz, an actor, model, and singer who will be on Logo’s upcoming show Setup Squad, wrote on his Facebook page, “I raised my hand and said, ‘Since I can’t get married or adopt a child in the state of New York, I can’t possibly be an impartial judge of a citizen when I am considered a second class citizen in the eyes of the justice system.’”

“And he got off the case!” reported Village Voice columnist Michael Musto. “And that’s how the new phenomenon of ‘jury duty blocking’ was born.”

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Re: Be gay, get out of jury duty.
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2011, 08:47:59 AM »
Well this may turn many people into temporary gays when they get a jury duty notice. ;D
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Re: Be gay, get out of jury duty.
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2011, 09:36:59 AM »
It can also make judgements againsts gays more likely with an all straight jury. 

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Re: Be gay, get out of jury duty.
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2011, 09:47:21 AM »
Kept me out of the Hells Angles motorcycle club.

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Re: Be gay, get out of jury duty.
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2011, 11:04:20 AM »
I can't understand why anybody would want to get out of jury duty? Give up their chance to maybe exercise nullification? Why thats un American.

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Re: Be gay, get out of jury duty.
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2011, 04:32:06 PM »
I served on a jury twice, and a Grand Jury once, loved it all three times.  After the Grand Jury the Fairbanks District attourney refuses to let me be called again.

The first case we the jurt found the person "not guilty".  It was obvious the police had spent a year tracking down and prosacuting the wrong person.

The second case the person had done what they were being charged with, but it was a stupid law and we refused to find him guilty.

The third time I was on the Grand Jury.  We only gave the District Attourney one third of the cases he brought to us.  In one case in particuler it was obvious they were trying to bring charges against the wrong person.  The DA was furious with me and one other person when we refused to send the case forward.  I accused him of only looking for stats.  That's attorney talk for winning prosacutions at all cost, no matter wheather the person is guilty or not, just to keep the numbers of successful prosacutions up in his record book, and make him look good for higher jobs.  Him and I had been friends, the man never spoke to me again after that.  I decided I really did not like him either, once his true self came out. 
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Re: Be gay, get out of jury duty.
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2011, 05:40:53 PM »

 therefore he couldn’t be impartial.


Glad they excused him, gay, straight, or all hot and bothered.
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Re: Be gay, get out of jury duty.
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2011, 11:05:56 PM »
I love jury duty.  I recently had a chance to prevent a smoker from being burnt by an insurance company.  And I'm a non-smoker.  The first time I was struck from the jury because the DA thought a missionary would be too soft hearted to get a conviction.  I pray that next time I get one of those unconstitutional cases.
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