As to why jury duty was a waste of time
Because of this. The judge did actually come out to the jury room and apologize to everyone for wasting their time. He was also visibly upset at the lawyers and even said so.
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June 20th, 2012 at 11:28 am
Incidentally, reading articles like that one is probably an excellent way to make sure you don’t get on the jury (though your views and the fact that you are informed and intelligent probably ensured that, anyway).
June 20th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Not sure what the problem is. would you prefer that it be accepted practice to go to trial without all the evidence? That the legal system (lawyers – judges) be allowed to withhold evidence?
Now if you could show that one or another of the lawyers had deliberately delayed the production of evidence in order to manipulate trial dates . . .
We know, though, that lawyers are above reproach and that would never happen. Don’t we ?
June 20th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
@CarlS: The usual practice would be for the attorney to ask several days ahead of time for the case to be continued to a later date – either because he had not received evidence he had requested, or because he just received it and would need more time to examine it before the trial.
I believe the issue here is that he didn’t do that, so everybody showed up thinking he was prepared. Apparently even the judge was pissed.
June 20th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Sounds like some good lawyering to me. Was the judge really foolish enough to think the defense attorney wouldn’t play as close to the edge as possible to skew everything to his side? The longer the trial is delayed, the less people will care and/or take any testimony against his client to heart