Jury duty, the new Studio 54
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers dreading jury duty take note: it's OK to be drunk on booze or high on pot or cocaine while doing your civic duty.
So said a New York judge on Wednesday, who refused to set aside the verdict on a retired city firefighter convicted of swiping souvenirs from Ground Zero, citing the U.S. Supreme Court to back her ruling.
Samuel Brandon, 61, found guilty in March of petty larceny for stealing personal items from the ruins of the World Trade Center, asked for a new trial after a juror told him after the verdict that he had been drinking during deliberations.
But Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Ellen Coin cited a 1987 Supreme Court decision which rejected the argument that jurors consuming alcohol, smoking marijuana, snorting cocaine and falling asleep constituted an "outside influence" on jurors.
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First off, you stole from the WTC site, moreover you're a member of the firefighters albeit retired. How proud they must have been to have you stealing things over the bodies of their fallen comrades.
Secondly, how cool is it you can have blow, liquor or combustible refreshments while deliberating.
"Your honor, the jury has requested the defendant's statement to the detective and another case of Pinwheel cookies"
So said a New York judge on Wednesday, who refused to set aside the verdict on a retired city firefighter convicted of swiping souvenirs from Ground Zero, citing the U.S. Supreme Court to back her ruling.
Samuel Brandon, 61, found guilty in March of petty larceny for stealing personal items from the ruins of the World Trade Center, asked for a new trial after a juror told him after the verdict that he had been drinking during deliberations.
But Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Ellen Coin cited a 1987 Supreme Court decision which rejected the argument that jurors consuming alcohol, smoking marijuana, snorting cocaine and falling asleep constituted an "outside influence" on jurors.
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First off, you stole from the WTC site, moreover you're a member of the firefighters albeit retired. How proud they must have been to have you stealing things over the bodies of their fallen comrades.
Secondly, how cool is it you can have blow, liquor or combustible refreshments while deliberating.
"Your honor, the jury has requested the defendant's statement to the detective and another case of Pinwheel cookies"
posted by Johnny Action Space Punk at 11:06 AM
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Now if only the judge would allow that to happen in everyday life
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