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During jury selection today a lawyer asked me directly if someone comes up and hits me do I consider that to be the start of a fight? I replied that it depended on whether or not I was conscious..... earlier a different lawyer had asked if anyone was bothered by lawyers advertising on TV. I raise my hand. I'm not the only one. so the lawyer says, So mister hankster why does it bother you? I said that we had too many lawyers as it is making a whole lot of money on the shoulders of some people that have been hurt. I'm guessing that's what got me booted from the pool of potential jurors.

hankster 9 Sep 23
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You might be able to do a lot of good on a jury.....why so much emphasis in getting out of it? Suppose You needed a jury.....

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Ask him to define "fight".

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For some reason I did a lot of jury time in my younger, college years. We, the potential jurors, got very good at deciding which cases we cared to sit on. And that’s prettymuch how we’d get off 😀

Varn Level 8 Sep 23, 2019
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Lol great response

bobwjr Level 10 Sep 23, 2019
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And I bet you didn't want to be on the jury anyway.

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just for kicks, are there too many doctors making a whole lot of money on the shoulders of people that have been hurt, sick or injured?

lerlo Level 8 Sep 23, 2019

@hankster 🙂 might want to consider the costs or legal and medical educations and the debt the lawyers and doctors have. just a notion and the fact that for every Plaintiff and cured sick, injured or hurt person that wins a lawsuit against a dishonest company or heals, it may be worth the money.

@hankster Imagine if doctors and lawyers received their pay from something other than their patients or clients or settlements. And why do these guys deserve so much pay, just because they say they do?

@hankster Maybe some deserve big bucks. Still, if it came from somewhere else, and were actually based on a different measure, I think it would change what and how they do things on a very fundamental level.

@hankster yes you must be right because the client who had third degree burns over much of the lower half of their body due the blatant negligence of the restaurant who had 700 previous complaints about the temperature of their coffee and didnt care, only gets 66% of the multimillion dollar award

@hankster those lawyers get nothing if they lose, that's okay right?

@hankster and you know the stats of civil cases too, impressive. Their choice if they lose a case, bleeding the system if they win and damn their clients, got it. The offending companies get to do as they please because it's capitalism. Makes perfect sense. Meanwhile there are golfers making millions for a weekend of golf and I'm sure that's your next post right? People making a whole lot of money off consumers most of which don't even like golf 😉

@hankster so you only care about certain people making money, I get it. Siding with companies that decide that a few deaths is cheaper than fixing their product is okay with you as long as they don't lay off workers I understand completely

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I got out of jury duty by saying I did not agree with the current marijuana laws. They asked, and I didn't.

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I was just selected a few months ago for jury duty for the first time ever. This I find weird as I have been a registered voter since age 18 and have always voted. Anyway... They ask if anyone knows the guy who is on trial... Nobody raises their hand. Then they bring in the plaintiff and her family. Jesus... I know her! What are the chances? They ask and I raise my hand. The defense attorney singles me out later and starts asking if I could be neutral and possibly find for the defendant. I said that I was 100% sure I could be fair and impartial.... BUT... If I were him.... I wouldn't have me on the jury because the defendant deserves someone who doesn't know either party... Just to be 100% sure. The judge didn't like my answer and scowled at me... But they agreed and let me go.

I was just being honest like they asked!

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