Nicole Black is an attorney and the Legal Technology Evangelist at MyCase. Her legal career spans nearly two decades and she has extensive litigation experience. She was named an inaugural ABA Legal Rebel in 2009 and an inaugural Fastcase 50 in 2011. She is also a well known legal technology author, journalist, and speaker. She wrote "Computing for Lawyers" (2012) and co-authored "Social Media: The Next Frontier" (2010), both published by the American Bar Association. She also co-authors "Criminal Law in New York," a Thomson West treatise. She often speaks at conferences about the intersection of law, mobile computing and Internet-based technology. She can be reached at niki.black@mycase.com.
My wife is of Korean descent, and has a so-so command of the English language. They keep calling her for jury duty anyway, and when she says she doesn’t understand English that well, they just tell her — “That’s OK — Just have a seat back there.” She has never sat on a jury though. In relation to this my wife used to have a lead foot — she got so many tickets, and went to plea bargain them so many times, that she was on a first name basis with the prosecutor’s office. One time, she went before the judge, and he asked her if she understood the paper she just signed. She looked him in the eye, and said, “No, Your Honor.” He madfe her come back and appointed a translator for her. Another time, she was about to lose her license because she had too many points — I told her what she had to reduce her points to. The people in the prosecutor’s office understood that, and plea bargained her points down. She got mad at them and told them she wanted her fine reduced too. They reduced her fine. I am awaiting her appointment on a jury. I am sure that will be an interesting (and possibly entertaining) time.
Just show up to Jury Duty in pajamas, they’ll send you straight home. Besides,you’ve already told work you had to take off for jury duty ,win/win for me,yay me!!!
Think about it! We should be eager to serve on juries. It is part of our system that at least allows a reasonable person to make a difference in bettering the world by exercising judgments of common sense and sensitivities.
The opposite is tyranny, beheading with no trial, old wild West gang hangings, imprisonment without a jury of peers, being thrown to the lions, or at the wrong end of a gun which can be used again and again by the evil driven person.
Wake up, please.
In sixty-five years I have been called for jury duty just once. I was looking forward to it. he court called he night before I was to show up to tell me that all cases had been resolved and no jury would be empaneled. Kinda irritated me.
AuntySocial
November 6, 2013 — 9:36 pm
I think it was the fact it was written in crayon that worked as well as what was written.
Carolyn hiatt
November 14, 2013 — 10:35 pm
Don’t make fun of crazy people who write in crayons!!!
littlepeaks
November 12, 2013 — 10:16 pm
My wife is of Korean descent, and has a so-so command of the English language. They keep calling her for jury duty anyway, and when she says she doesn’t understand English that well, they just tell her — “That’s OK — Just have a seat back there.” She has never sat on a jury though. In relation to this my wife used to have a lead foot — she got so many tickets, and went to plea bargain them so many times, that she was on a first name basis with the prosecutor’s office. One time, she went before the judge, and he asked her if she understood the paper she just signed. She looked him in the eye, and said, “No, Your Honor.” He madfe her come back and appointed a translator for her. Another time, she was about to lose her license because she had too many points — I told her what she had to reduce her points to. The people in the prosecutor’s office understood that, and plea bargained her points down. She got mad at them and told them she wanted her fine reduced too. They reduced her fine. I am awaiting her appointment on a jury. I am sure that will be an interesting (and possibly entertaining) time.
Carolyn hiatt
November 14, 2013 — 10:32 pm
Just show up to Jury Duty in pajamas, they’ll send you straight home. Besides,you’ve already told work you had to take off for jury duty ,win/win for me,yay me!!!
thinkagain
November 18, 2013 — 10:39 pm
Think about it! We should be eager to serve on juries. It is part of our system that at least allows a reasonable person to make a difference in bettering the world by exercising judgments of common sense and sensitivities.
The opposite is tyranny, beheading with no trial, old wild West gang hangings, imprisonment without a jury of peers, being thrown to the lions, or at the wrong end of a gun which can be used again and again by the evil driven person.
Wake up, please.
THEyardpilot
March 13, 2014 — 12:18 am
In sixty-five years I have been called for jury duty just once. I was looking forward to it. he court called he night before I was to show up to tell me that all cases had been resolved and no jury would be empaneled. Kinda irritated me.
Angela Banks-Opoku
November 29, 2013 — 9:56 pm
Hopefully something can get through.