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Visiting my grandma who has dementia, who is now in an assisted living facility, and we stayed for about three or four hours, we said we had to go, and she said in the most agreeable tone ever: “I know it’s out of your way, but could you drop me home on your way back?”
Having to explain to her that she was home made me want to scream cry throw up
ty for stealing this one much appreciated
people in the notes suggesting it was "improper" for the juror to do this or that it "introduced bias" to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in
As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.
First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”
And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.
Like, we can all agree that would be bad.
So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.
So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?
The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.
The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”
The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” --- like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.
For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.
So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”
There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.
Reblogging for that last post, because frankly, “what to do as a juror” is one of those things the schools should really be teaching us. Serving on a jury is one of the most powerful rights of citizenship and everyone should be educated in how to exercise it correctly.
I just realized that for the past three or four days I’ve mixed up two medications that looked exactly the same (hence the accidental switch), that are also absolutely, 100% contraindicated, and can cause a potentially fatal electrolyte imbalance, and now I’m just sitting here like… how am I not sick/dying/dead right now?
…like am I just that lucky, or am I just so bad at remembering to take my medicine that enough time passed between the mixed-up doses that the original medicine was out of my system before I started taking the wrong medicine…or what?
fucking hell. I feel like throwing up from pure anxiety.
anneofgreengaybles asked:
rewatching the sopranos one episode at a time every Sunday, like when it originally aired in the 2000s. a bunch of people decided to do it after succession ended
Oh! Thanks! I had no idea. I’ve never seen the Sopranos. Maybe it’s time to watch it!
Anonymous asked:
are you participating in “Sopranos Sundays”?
Oooh what is “Sopranos Sundays”? That sounds fun!
Imagine purporting to be a journalist and saying there were no economic changes after 2007.
This is so cute but all I could think about was that Instagram Live where Miranda Otto described this exact scenario, where she never knows which greeting someone expects; she’s used to going in for two kisses on either cheek, but when she does this with someone only expecting one kiss, or with someone expecting a hug, they wind up locking lips 😂
I hope you don’t mind, but I slowed the gif down because that is a FANTASTIC move.
this is the kind of shit that gets described as “quickly disarmed him” in writing and truly doesn’t do it justice
