Mon 25 Feb 2008
I think in our last trial, the attorneys actually managed to assemble a collection of 12 of the stupidest members of society to act as our jurors. Even with surveillance video footage, even with a signed confession-like document in which she promised to repay everything she stole, she claimed she didn’t understand the word “theft” and wasn’t really confessing to any wrongdoing when she signed the document.
DA: Although you’re saying now that you were lying when you wrote that?
Defendant: What do you mean lying.
DA: You weren’t willing to pay back? Were you willing or not?
Defendant: I am willing to pay back if they prove it to me that, you know, I am actually stealing money from the [store] but I am not going to pay them back if they didn’t prove it to me that I am stealing money.
Uh…WEREN’T YOU THERE TO KNOW THAT YOU STOLE THE MONEY? The camera footage said you were! Jeebus.
Anyway, the jury acquitted.
And then after the trial was over, the judge put a written quote on my desk, saying as he did so, “Words to live by.”
It said: “The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. – Aristotle”
HUH???
Justice is ALL confusing today.
doesn’t that quote just mean that there’s only so much justice in the world to the extent there is wisdom to apply it? in other words, none of your 12 had wisdom. LOL
(Hi Anny!)
Cindy, your jury is how George W Bush managed to get a second term in the White House.
anny – I guess I should be more understanding of what these 12 jurors had to go thru, what with their having to share one brain cell between them and all.
Vicky – Gah. Now I’m scared for my future.
The law is all screwed up! I remember when I worked in HR and this stylist was not ringing up clients and pocketing the money. We caught her on tape and fired her. She would unemplyment that she didn’t know how to use the register and was holding the $$ until she learn. Come on! After DAYS you think if that was the real reason, she would have asked some one! During their probationary period, they get a min. hourly rate of like $10 or commision, if they make it. SHe was thinking she was going to pocket the $, un not notice and pay her $10/hr, too. Some people….
hi V! LOL
Vanessa – that is what this chick did, too. Or, according to the jury, what the chick DIDN’T do. When she worked the register, she DIDN’T void out a bunch of purchases and DIDN’T pocket the cash paid for them. Her sister, who worked for the same store, did the same thing that our defendant DIDN’T do and the sister went to jail. (We even had documentary evidence logged by the computer showing the defendant’s employee # and a TON of voids she did, over a course of months.)
I think the jurors split the stolen money…and if you can prove to them that the money they accepted was stolen, they’d happily find her guilty. It’s a vicious cycle…
*shaking fist*
Sincere congratulations to Casey on not guilty verdict. Wish her to make the best of her life.
Olena please..
CASEY IS GUILTY. The reason they didn’t have enough evidence to convict the lying witch is because her daughter DECOMPOSED for over 6 months in a swampy area and there was nothing there for a proper autopsy.. SHE’S GUILTY…