Jury Wednesday
Wednesday turned out to be my last day as a juror. I can now talk about The Case:
A man was accused of Misdemeanor Vehicular Manslaughter. The prosecutions said that he had run a red light in downtown Palm Springs, struck a vehicle, killing the driver. The prosecution presented a lot of witnesses stating basically the same thing…the defendant had run a red light and struck the other vehicle. There was one funny moment in the case when the prosecution asked one witness if she saw the man who did it in court. She looked at everyone in the court, then pointed at Juror #3 and said “It was him.” It turned out she was talking about the man that tried to save the man’s life. Anyway….after the prosecution rested the defendant took the stand. His only defense seemed to be that he wasn’t paying attention. The jury went to the deliberation room, discussed it for about 30 minutes and found the man guilty. He was!
Jury Wednesday
Wednesday turned out to be my last day as a juror. I can now talk about The Case:
A man was accused of Misdemeanor Vehicular Manslaughter. The prosecutions said that he had run a red light in downtown Palm Springs, struck a vehicle, killing the driver. The prosecution presented a lot of witnesses stating basically the same thing…the defendant had run a red light and struck the other vehicle. There was one funny moment in the case when the prosecution asked one witness if she saw the man who did it in court. She looked at everyone in the court, then pointed at Juror #3 and said “It was him.” It turned out she was talking about the man that tried to save the man’s life. Anyway….after the prosecution rested the defendant took the stand. His only defense seemed to be that he wasn’t paying attention. The jury went to the deliberation room, discussed it for about 30 minutes and found the man guilty. He was!