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ABS, bobbing and treading in the Jury Pool

ABS was recently selected for Jury Duty - even though it is not Lent - and he dutifully and resentfully showed-up on time.

When he arrived at the Court House Parking Garage a young woman was exiting a car near him and she joined him as he approached the elevators;

I am on Jury Duty and I am very nervous; I don't really know what to expect; are you here for Jury Duty?

Yes. Here is the long and short of what will happen today. If you are selected to be brought up to a court room you will be asked some questions to see if you are eligible to hear the case and render judgment as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant.

Don't play too much attention to what the lawyers of each side say, just know that the defendant is guilty or he would't be charged with a crime.

(She stoped walking along side of ABS and he sensed she was confused as to whether or not he was serious.)

ABS was subjected to voir dire (A French phrase meaning, What's that, dear?) to see if he was an apt juror to decide whether a local company was negligent in what was clearly a nuisance Civil Law suit.

As he was being examined, ABS disclosed his bias against nuisance law suits; the women was her own lawyer - which tells you she had no case as So. Flo. has more dirt bag personal injury contingency lawyers than the Clinton have actual crimes.

ABS also claimed he could not be an impartial judge in this matter for other reasons and the Judge thanked him for his honesty and said she would talk to him later.

After a lunch break was announced, ABS was called to the bench where the Judge asked him why he could not be impartial;

You honor, ABS would not be constrained to follow your instructions to the jury because when a jury sits to deliberate it is the law and what you instruct us to what we must do or not do may not be what we chose to decide...

What are you talking about?

Jury Nullification...

As one who has been on the bench a long time, I can assure you there is no such thing...

Excuse, me, your Honor. Jury Nullification is a principle of civil rights * that has been in existence for hundreds of years and it in an inalienable civil right of all American citizens and...

OK, that is enough....

ABS was excused from Jury Duty

http://fija.org/document-library/jury-nullification-faq/


https://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/primary-source-documents/virginia-and-kentucky-resolutions/


* Civil rights are for ALL Americans and it is an abuse of common sense and an historical error of great magnitude to speak of them as only applying to negroes or other favored minorities.

2. Relating to any man as a member of a community; as civil power, civil rights, the power or rights which a man enjoys as a citizen.



OK, just what'n'hell is the leg position of the dancers at the end of the song supposed to signify?