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Title: Pennsylvania couple avoid jail over profane, racist responses in jury form. Post by: sprite75 on February 21, 2014, 10:55:56 PM God. Stupid. Burns. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/19/drayke-jacobs-van-tol-tin_n_4818262.html)
Quote SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania couple have been cited for contempt of court for sending back a jury questionnaire filled with profanity, crude language and racial slurs. A Lackawanna County judge cited 25-year-old Tina Keller and 23-year-old Drayke Jacobs-Van-Tol. That landed the Taylor couple a court date Tuesday. Judge Vito Geroulo dismissed the contempt citation but warned that the pair could have spent up to six months in jail for what he called the most "intentionally disrespectful" jury form he'd ever seen. (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z259/47of74/facepalm.jpg) Title: Re: Pennsylvania couple avoid jail over profane, racist responses in jury form. Post by: indianasmith on February 21, 2014, 11:45:37 PM To quote John Wayne: "Life is hard. It's harder when you're stupid."
Title: Re: Pennsylvania couple avoid jail over profane, racist responses in jury form. Post by: Jack on February 22, 2014, 07:21:27 AM You can get 6 months in jail for filling out a form incorrectly? One hell of a country we live in.
Title: Re: Pennsylvania couple avoid jail over profane, racist responses in jury form. Post by: Umaril Has Returned on February 22, 2014, 09:15:02 AM You can get 6 months in jail for filling out a form incorrectly? One hell of a country we live in. That's OK, I hear you get ten years if you don't fill it out in triplicate..... Title: Re: Pennsylvania couple avoid jail over profane, racist responses in jury form. Post by: Rev. Powell on February 22, 2014, 09:39:18 AM You can get 6 months in jail for filling out a form incorrectly? One hell of a country we live in. That's OK, I hear you get ten years if you don't fill it out in triplicate..... Contempt of court. The idea is that they were deliberately filling out the form falsely and offensively so they would not be selected for jury duty. There are easier ways to go about it. "The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."--Homer Simpson Title: Re: Pennsylvania couple avoid jail over profane, racist responses in jury form. Post by: Mofo Rising on February 22, 2014, 01:21:08 PM When I first moved to Phoenix, AZ from my hometown of Juneau, AK, I was still registered as a resident of Alaska. One day I got a postcard requesting my presence for jury duty in Juneau. So I filled out the questionnaire truthfully and mailed it back. The last question on the postcard was "How far do you live from the courthouse?" I wrote 3000 miles.
They didn't call me up for jury duty. Title: Re: Pennsylvania couple avoid jail over profane, racist responses in jury form. Post by: tracy on February 22, 2014, 01:28:12 PM You can get 6 months in jail for filling out a form incorrectly? One hell of a country we live in. That's OK, I hear you get ten years if you don't fill it out in triplicate..... Contempt of court. The idea is that they were deliberately filling out the form falsely and offensively so they would not be selected for jury duty. There are easier ways to go about it. "The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."--Homer Simpson |