Sounds worse then O.J.'s.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Defense attorney Leslie Ballin called it the "jury pool from hell." The group of prospective jurors was summoned to listen to a case of Tennessee trailer park violence. Right after jury selection began last week, one man got up and left, announcing, "I'm on morphine and I'm higher than a kite." You can't beat Tennessee trailer park violence trials. But this would've been a jury of their peers.
When the prosecutor asked if anyone had been convicted of a crime, a prospective juror said that he had been arrested and taken to a mental hospital after he almost shot his nephew. He said he was provoked because his nephew just would not come out from under the bed. C'mon. He didn't shoot him, he almost shot him. He should've been seated.
Another would-be juror said he had had alcohol problems and was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover officer. "I should have known something was up," he said. "She had all her teeth." That's a telltale sign, Billy Bob.
Another prospect volunteered he probably should not be on the jury: "In my neighborhood, everyone knows that if you get Mr. Ballin (as your lawyer), you're probably guilty." He was not chosen. Mr. Ballin must get paid in abandoned refrigerators or pit bull puppies or something.
The case involved a woman accused of hitting her brother's girlfriend in the face with a brick. Ballin's client was found not guilty. A big win for Leslie Ballin, Esq.
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tu3031 - this reminds me of this one "helpful hints to picking up hookers" thing I read years back....
1) If she looks like she's had a bath in the past 24 hours and all her teeth....she's an undercover cop
2) If she has really beautiful long hair.....she's a pre-op transsexual with a wig
3) If she looks filthy, missing some teeth and is incoherent....that's a real one, go for it!
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Ah, a story from home! The KKK leader who accidently shot a new recruit in the 'punkin was not far from here either. I just sit back at the Deacon Blues Pork Palace and Potables Parlour and munch the popcorn. We opened a brand new keg of 'Blues Stout yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed the local news.
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Two police officers involved in a videotaped beating of a black teenager that sparked nationwide outrage have been awarded $2.4 million by a Los Angeles jury that found they were unfairly disciplined. The larger jury award of $1.6 million went to Jeremy Morse who was fired from the Inglewood police force immediately after the 2002 incident in which he was captured on an amateur videotape slamming a 16 year-old onto a squad car and punching him in the jaw after a routine vehicle stop. The incident, shown repeatedly on nationwide television, had echoes of the infamous beating by four Los Angeles police of black motorist Rodney King that in 1992 sparked some of the worst urban rioting in U.S. history.
Morse, who is white, sued the mostly black city of Inglewood alleging he was disciplined unfairly because a black officer who was also at the scene, but never charged, was suspended for only five days. He claimed racial discrimination and on Tuesday was awarded the damages. Morse had been tried twice on assault charges but the jury deadlocked both times and prosecutors dropped the case a year ago. His partner, Bijan Darvish, was suspended for 10 days and later acquitted of filing a false police report over the incident. Darvish claimed his suspension was excessive and was awarded $811,000 damages. Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn was astonished by the verdict. "How do you give a man who was suspended for only 10 days more than $800,000? Morse was fired, but $1.6 million?" Dorn told the Los Angeles Times. Lawyer Paul Coble, who represented Inglewood in the case, said he would meet with city officials next week to consider appealing either the verdict or the size of the award.
LAHORE: Shaukat Abbas, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Punjab joint secretary, was found brutally murdered at his Ghaziabad house late on Tuesday night, a private television channel reported. The deceased's relatives told police that he had been missing for the last couple of days. Police tried to contact him at his house, but found that it was locked. Police broke in and discovered Mr Abbas cut to pieces in his bathroom. The motive behind the murder could not be known immediately.
Mrs Abbas, in the bathroom, with a axe
The deceased had married twice and was living in Lahore with his second wife while his first one lived in Gujrat with their three children.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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