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Smart lawyer - smarter jury
A friend sent this to me. Probably not a true story, but funny.
In a criminal justice system based on 12 individuals not smart enough to get out of jury duty, here is a jury to be proud of:
A defendant was on trial for murder. There was strong evidence indicating guilt, but there was no corpse. In the defense’s closing statement, the lawyer, knowing that his client would probably be convicted, resorted to a trick.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a surprise for you all," the lawyer said as he looked at his watch. "Within one minute, the person presumed dead in this case will walk into this courtroom." He looked toward the courtroom door. The jurors, somewhat stunned, all looked on eagerly. A minute passed. Nothing happened.
Finally the lawyer said, "Actually, I made up the previous statement. But you all looked on with anticipation. I, therefore, put it to you that you have a reasonable doubt in this case as to whether anyone was killed, and I insist that you return a verdict of not guilty."
The jury retired to deliberate. A few minutes later, the jury returned and pronounced a verdict of guilty. "But how?" inquired the lawyer. "You must have had some doubt; I saw all of you stare at the door."
The jury foreman replied: "Yes, we did look, but your client didn't."
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I saw this on an old episode of Perry Mason. Most will probably say Perry Who? I miss quality tv.
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It was also a Matlock trick. For those that do not remember Perry
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I do remember both. I am getting old.
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02-02-2012, 10:07 AM
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I do remember both. I am getting old.
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I hear ya...
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Getting? Hahahahaha.
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Thanks Doug M. I still run you out.
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02-02-2012, 12:53 PM
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That was back when t.v. was worth watching. I miss those days.
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Funny.......I remember Mason and Matlock too. Suddenly I feel OLD!
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Yep and you had to get of the couch to change the channels. How inconvenient!
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I remember both Perry and Matlock.
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I do remember mister Ed. That was even before Matlock and Mason.
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That's nothing. I remember when Perry Mason was in Law School.
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I remember them as well, guess we're all gittin' old
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That type of scene was also in an episode of "Homicide, Life on the Street". Great 1990's series.
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That's nothing. I remember when Perry Mason was in Law School.
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That's nothing, Lee went to Grade School with him!
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Yep and you had to get of the couch to change the channels. How inconvenient!
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And going with mom to Woolworths to get new tubes for the tv. They had this "tester thingy" where you plugged in your defective tube to see if it lit up or not.
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I bet Caj was one of Perry Mason's law school professors....
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i got Perry on twice a day 10 to 11 am and 11:30 to 12:30 pm
problem being, after Perry at night they put Untouchables at 12:30, Peter Gunn 1:30 to 2:00, Mission Impossible at 2:00, Combat at 3:00, and Twelve O'Clock high at 4:00
all these were favorites when growing up ~~~ being retired, i've had the pleasure of rewatching a whole bunch of these, thanks to that nagging prostrate problem
these old B/W on the big LCD are crisp and clear, not like the old days when you got one hand on the vert knob and the other on the horz knob trying to get the lines out and the picture centered
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No you didn't, just had to whack the youngest (me in this case) and tell them to change the channel!
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I remember Perry Mason as a quest on the Mr. Wizard show in 1951 !
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Anyone else remember before you had a TV and entertainment was the radio? There were TV's out there but we didn't have one. Not many people in housing projects on the South Side of Chicago did.
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No you didn't, just had to whack the youngest (me in this case) and tell them to change the channel!
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I was the youngest. I had to get up to adjust the fine tuning. Which I heard at "Just to find Tooney" Never found, him, her, or it, but did get a clear picture.
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Yep, I watched them programs too.
You can catch them in syndication and maybe you won't feel so old.
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Matlock against Perry Mason. Now that would be a great trial.
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Hey I remember Davvvvyyyy, Daaaavy Crockett! "Killed in a bar when he was only three..."
(Yessir, those old timers were some some hard drinkin' sons of guns, and, considering their short, short careers, they accomplished so much!)
(Hmm. Guess he was drinkin' tequila as that bar musta been in the Alamo, come to think of it...)
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Back around 1943 there was a cowboy program on the radio for kids called Tennessee Jed. Each program started like this:
(sound of runing feet)
"There he goes, Tennessee.. GET 'EM".
POW.
(southern accent) "Got 'em, daaaaid center".
That program would last about two seconds in today's PC environment. "Think of the effect on the children!" Anyone else remember it? I think it was on station WOR.
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My 19-year old and I were watching TV last night, and he looked at me and said, said, "You didn't have remote controls when you were little, did ya?"
I looked back and said, "Of course we did, Junior............I WAS The remote!"
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