I was interested in input to my original question. If you read through the thread I said my case probably doesn’t have much of a chance. I wasn’t looking for people that “agreed” with me. I don’t understand how I’m looking for people to agree with me when I was asking a question. Your arrogant response to my OP just made you look like a douche. And as pointed out by another poster you just wasted your time. But hey, you might’ve at least gotten a little bit of an ego boost out of it. Oh, and you need to GTFO your high horse man.
Is he saying how old I was when I got the tickets? How many tickets I've received? I never gave those numbers so I'm not sure. Please explain how this was properly written. And please explain how I am a terrible liar.
Yeah I was more or less just trying to troll the Op. I never speed through schoolzones or neighborhoods. I stay within a reasonable distance of the flow of traffic on the highway. But what I said about the tickets is true. The OP must suck at driving to rack up so many tickets. Probably being careless and reckless at the same time. And DD... You should never ever serve on a jury. I have jury duty today and if chosen I'll obey the command of the court, follow the rule of Law, judge the case based on the facts and leave my personal feelings/opinions out of it.
Alex, you makin the same mistake anyone who's not a "contributing member" makes at 1st, You takin exception to everyone's response...I've had my share of verbal battles on here ....Then I realized, I wont be seeing any of these folks in person so why bother.....Now my verbal assaults are intended to entertain not because Im offended...Just roll with the punches , and take the bass outta your voice!!!!
fine you cn be "fair" by your standard, but you clearly can't be impartial. If you go into the jury box with a bias, you've already violated your initial oath to tell the truth. Having tried many many jury trials, I've dealt with the self-richeous juror (i.e. jurors like you who think they know best) many times. Usually they can't contain themselves in jury selection and have to speak up to show everyone how "smart" they are and get struck for cause (while the rest of the jurors roll their eyes at their comments). But, every once in a while, you get one that sneaks onto the jury. All the other jurors hate them, the judge admonishes them, and you end up with a hung jury because one idiot thought he'd get onto a jury to make a point. It doesn't change the law. It doesn't mean the state drops the charges. All you've succeeded in doing is wasting everyone's time and taxpayer dollars. Because the case gets tried again, this time without "that juror" getting on the jury. Sometimes "that juror" is removed from the panel because of their refusal to delibreate and an alternate is seated and on rare occassions (though I've never seen this myself) that juror gets held in contempt. Frankly, I think the last route is the appropriate one.
you I thought you said 10 or 11 tickets....sorry to offend you by spotting you one extra ticket. But the fact that you don't even know how many tickets you shows how little you pay attention. I'm not trying to flame you, just stating the facts.
^ you just misspelled "has" as "was" and he's being all SwoLy on you about that. I certainly caught that, but wouldn't use that against you because your point was a strong one. Now, if it was someone else, like someone who constantly misuses "it's" and "its" *cough*DaDakota*cough*, I would understand how their spelling and grammar skills had stopped.
You obviously don't know what a conservative estimate is. As an aside, why does anybody respond to DaDa's posts in threads like these? Pitiful.
Because we are having a discussion about what a jury is charged with doing, and how each individual interpets that charge. DD
If the ticket is in Houston the Judges are not automatically letting everybody that ask for deferred adjudication have it. They have started restricting it for frequent offenders, when you are in front of the Judge he will have a copy of your driving record now (computer age is dogging us). If you haven't taken defensive driving in the last year or so that will be your best bet. It is getting tougher to beat a ticket in court they just want your money and for you to get the heck out of the way. If the cop did not sign the ticket then your home free other wise they aren't letting you out till they get your cash. I know we have picked on you about your frequent tickets but if you loose your licenses it will be a pain if you have to use your car for getting back and forth to work or for work.
rimbaud has a point. you keep saying it's just a conservative estimate. that would mean the actual amount of tickets you received is more than the "conservative estimate" of ten. if you've actually received 8 tickets, your conservative estimate should have been something around 6.
Point taken. I'm sure from my original post that stated "no more than 10" that it was understood that 10 was the upper limit. Regardless, I thank rimjob for contributing another irrelevant spelling/grammar/meaning correction to this thread.
Without claiming to be an expert or anything, I believe DaDakota is perfectly within his rights (for once!). Sparf v. US clearly allows the juror to judge not only the defendant, but the law under which he is charged, no matter how much it annoys the judge and lawyers.
