Comments on: Not Guilty . . . https://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=341 fairly undermining public confidence in the administration of justice Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:44:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: New Business Plan | People v. State https://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=341&cpage=1#comment-2290 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:44:31 +0000 http://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=341#comment-2290 […] a reason why I’ve only tried three criminal cases to a jury despite graduating from law school in 1999. This case and cause of action, an […]

]]> By: chad https://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=341&cpage=1#comment-1946 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:23:48 +0000 http://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=341#comment-1946 A man was chosen for jury duty who really wanted to be dismissed from serving. He tried every excuse he could think of but none of them worked. On the day of the trial, he decided to give it one more shot. As the trial was about to begin, he asked if he could approach the bench.

“Your Honor,” he said, “I must be excused from this trial because I am prejudiced against the defendant. I took one look at the man in the blue suit with those beady eyes and that dishonest face and I said ‘He’s a crook! He’s guilty!’ So, your Honor, I cannot possibly stay on this jury!”

With a tired annoyance the judge replied, “Get back in the jury box, you fool. That man is the defendant’s lawyer.”

]]> By: Has Gerry Spence ever lost a criminal case? You be the judge. | People v. State https://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=341&cpage=1#comment-1351 Sun, 23 May 2010 17:09:30 +0000 http://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=341#comment-1351 […] any case in which the defendant is convicted of anything, then I guess I can’t count this case I tried before a jury as a win, even though there was never really any doubt that my client was […]

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