• FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      7 months ago

      All the TVs at my gym are broadcasting jury selection footage like it's fuckin draft season

      Juror #5 is an married man who runs an IT business for companies that make shoes

      It's so boring

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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          7 months ago

          Why do defendants even need to be there for jury selection? Isn’t it just lawyers fighting each other over who gets to see the case?

          • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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            7 months ago

            Mostly just to make sure the lawyers don’t completely fuck up and so the defendant can go “Wait I know that guy don’t let him on the jury”

            Not really needed here

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        You have TVs at your gym? Mine only has a random selection of music in the background.

        I don't know if having TVs playing Trump's trial at the gym is better than a non-zero chance of hearing Saliva's Click Click Boom, which no kidding happened a few months ago

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          7 months ago

          Yeah

          Mine also plays music too

          It's hell for my sensory issues, so I usually just listen to my own music with the noise canceling on my buds tuned very high

        • NewLeaf
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          7 months ago

          You have a gym? We had to go work out in rolled up newspaper in middle of road! And when we got back, dad would cut us in half with a bread knife and dance about on our graves!

          https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k?si=-FTJVc31Lawen9it

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        Also they're actively doxxing jurors while writing breathless op Ed's about how completely unacceptable it is that Trump is trying to dox jurors.

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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          7 months ago

          I would ask for a dismissal and point to the journalists sitting in the back tweeting away as the reason