Julian Heicklen, freedom-fighter extraordinaire and the most bad-ass senior citizen you will ever meet, was arrested at his home at 6:00 a.m. this morning by officers of Teaneck police department and the federal protective service. The arrest is presumably related to his indictment for jury tampering and his failure to appear at the arraignment. More […]
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Where she grew up in the Midwest, The Free Agent knows many people who have lived out their natural life spans without ever having been called to jury duty. Because she chose to settle in Coastopolis, however, the FA gets a summons about as often as she does birthday cards. Well, as often as she
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As Vin Suprynowicz wrote, voire dire is French for jury-stacking. I’m experiencing that process first-hand right now. We’ll see what happens.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have jury duty starting today. I’ll post periodically throughout the day if anything interesting happens — hopefully without saying anything that will get me arrested. Thankfully I’m in the New York County criminal court section, so I might get an interesting case, not the lame civil court section.
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Every once in awhile, Time Magazine really surprises me. Usually it’s a bastion of conformity and inside-the-box thinking, but then out of nowhere, pow! Take this week’s surprising guest editorial, from the creators of HBO’s The Wire. Not only do they call out the drug war as the monstrous, destructive atrocity that it is, but
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