Fox News - A federal judge in New York reportedly sentenced a Brooklyn woman to indefinite jury duty after she made racist remarks toward minorities. The unidentified juror -- an Asian woman in her 20s who said she works in the garment industry -- was being screened for jury duty on Tuesday in the death penalty trial of Bonanno crime boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano. Asked to name three people she least admired, the woman wrote on her questionnaire: "African-Americans, Hispanics and Haitians." When Garaufis asked why she answered the question that way, the woman replied, "You always hear about them in the news doing something." The woman also claimed that cops are all lazy, accusing them of sounding their sirens to bypass traffic jams, the Daily News reports. Assistant U.S. Attorney Taryn Merkl requested that the woman be disqualified from the Basciano case because of her "inappropriate" comments. The motion was granted. Garaufis then instructed the court that the woman would be seeing a lot of Brooklyn Federal Court in coming days. "She's coming back [today], Thursday and Friday -- and until the future, when I am ready to dismiss her," he said.
So the whole hold you in contempt thing is real huh? That’s not just a law & order svu myth? Like how doesn’t this happen all the time? Last time I got called for jury duty I legit told the judge that I couldn’t be impartial because of my previous schooling as a political science major. Did he give me a discerning look? Obviously. Is it probably the worst excuse he heard that day? Definitely. Judges probably hear everything in the book, and they probably use the best ones themselves when they get called for jury duty.
So I fail to see what made this one particular excuse stand out from the rest and worthy of jail time. If you ask me she was just bluntly honest. Sorry but if I’m watching the evening local news chances are it’s going to be filled with police blotter involving minorities. It doesn’t make me or this asian broad racist for noticing this, maybe the tv stations are racists but that’s not for me to decide. I’m just going with what I’m being fed here. And yea 100% cops use their sirens to dodge the occasional light or traffic jam, they wouldn’t be cops if they didn’t.
The last I checked this was still America, and I’m assuming this woman was an American citizen. I thought we were only allowed to lock up camel jockeys in gitmo indefinitely with no trial. I don’t know what kind of high horse this judge is riding on, but it’s complete bull shit. So this woman didn’t want to do jury duty ? Who the hell does? Lying your way out of jury duty is as American as Apple Pie.
