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Talkin’ on Tuesday

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My day in court! Or, more properly put, my day mostly spent sitting and waiting then a little time going through voir dire.

In tonight’s podcast, longer than most (it’s an 8.00MB mp3 file with a nearly nine minute runtime), I:

1.) briefly summarize my impressions of a day spent in the Bexar County Court system, which is a smooth-running operation because good judges are in charge of it and good County Employees make sure it works as it should,

2.) share a funny moment spent with Lil’ Dave’s Drinking, Fighting, and a Buffet post (you simply HAVE to check out the video clip of Jen kickboxing against a big crazy-woman!), and

3.) relate the exchange I had in court with a lawyerette-D.A. that saved me from jury duty.

correction: Jen informs me that her kickboxing is done “on Phi Phi Island.. actually Ko Phi Phi Don in Thailand.”

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  1. Carolyn wrote:

    Good for you, Roscoe. As many diabetics as there are here in South Texas, I can’t believe that that stupid lawyer was trying to get away with an argument like that. Good for you!

    Posted 31 Mar 2009 at 21:56
  2. Roscoe wrote:

    Really! I can’t believe I’m the only one who was in that courtroom to have heard, time and time again, of diabetics who died in drunk tanks after being tossed in there by police who misidentified their symptoms.

    Even scarier than that was the choice by the attorneys of those selected to be in the jury to hear this case. Two of them were incredibly clueless.

    Posted 31 Mar 2009 at 23:36
  3. Bro Steve wrote:

    You go, Boy! They only want sheeple, anyway, who can led by the nose.

    Posted 01 Apr 2009 at 16:59
  4. Roscoe wrote:

    You got that right, Steve. And it was sad to hear how many (most! – seriously, nearly all!) of the 24 people in my voir dire pool had been led by the nose into believing that anyone who drinks, even the very smallest amount, and then proceeds to drive is guilty not only of breaking the law (which they aren’t) but of committing the most horrible of mortal sins.

    Posted 01 Apr 2009 at 17:28
  5. Bro Steve wrote:

    Yeah! I can relate! I went to bed last night, completely sober, and awoke, dreaming that the Feds were surrounding me, charging me with sodomy. I swore that, No, I was merely doing laundry, reading Dylan Thomas poetry, waiting for the baseball season to start, listening to Vas on my iPod, and that Barak Obama was sucking on Queen Elizabeth. Lou Reed wouldn’t come up for several more songs on my iPod, so whatever latent homosexuality they wanted to charge me with would have to wait until Obama pushed the Queen away and began toying with me. It was close! BTW, I can’t wait! His monkey ears just turn me on in the biggest way.

    Posted 02 Apr 2009 at 04:56
  6. Shirl wrote:

    Way to go, Roscoe! I did my “listening on Sunday” thing. Very enjoyable.

    Posted 05 Apr 2009 at 09:28
  7. Roscoe wrote:

    Thanks, Shirl, … for the listen and for the kind words.

    Posted 05 Apr 2009 at 13:46