re: Stuck in jury duty

I was. Actually served as Foreman.

We tried a guy who robbed a convenience store at gunpoint. threatened to kill several kids and an old man during the robbery. He struck the old guy with his gun and knocked him to the floor.

As he did that, the PoPos pulled up, having been called by a silent alarm the behind the counter guy activated when they guy showed the gun as he walked into the place. The old guy then jerked the robber's feet out from under him and held him on the floor until the PoPos made it inside to arrest him.

In court, the guy testified he had been high on cocaine for several days and was just trying to get some money to buy more. He had no idea where he got the gun, which had been filed clean of serial numbers. He then said if they said he did it, he must have. He said he had no memory of doing it, that his first memory was waking up in jail and finding a small quantity of cocaine he had placed in a pack in his shoe, which he did in jail. He said the video tapes certainly looked like him.

Took us maybe 10 minutes to convict him. One of the guys on the jury was a Little Debby truck driver, and after we found the robber guilty, we all had a Little Debby snack cake from the bag of stuff the truck driver brought with him. That took maybe thirty minutes and then we went back to announce our guilty verdict.

The guy got thirty years at Parchman Prison. IT was a while back and the robber might be back out on the streets by now.