tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411573.post7807452307806155781..comments2024-01-11T06:01:18.741-05:00Comments on Fallenmonk: Wasted Timefallenmonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17652766170343957948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411573.post-34236008467047443622012-08-18T19:07:34.031-04:002012-08-18T19:07:34.031-04:00One young woman will have the chance for a future ...One young woman will have the chance for a future because of you/ Good work. karmanothttp://adgitadiaries.blog-city.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411573.post-4073007428890448202012-08-17T01:15:14.699-04:002012-08-17T01:15:14.699-04:00Frustrating. I once spent three days in pretrial a...Frustrating. I once spent three days in pretrial activities before a murder trial, which I knew I could not be chosen for. Another time I spent three days before I could tell the judge in a third-felony drug case that I could not "consider the full range of penalties under law" if we convicted. (Life in prison for a baggie? Get real!)<br /><br />As little as Harris County, TX likes it, and as difficult as they make it for cripples to submit their disability, if you can't walk half a block, you can't serve on a jury here, because of the multiple courthouses served from the same jury assembly room through underground passages downtown. Getting out of jury duty now makes up for my having served twice as many times as everyone else most of my life: my driver's license and my voter registration differ in (middle name, middle initial), and the state computer can't handle the difference, so they summoned me as two different people, thus twice as often. It was decades before I ferreted out what was really happening. Even then I didn't fix it; I didn't want to risk either my right to vote or my right to drive.Steve Batesnoreply@blogger.com