I did a month of Grand Jury in Brooklyn Supreme Court..
Interesting exercise, it is different from trial jury in that you are there to decide if there is a case to answer not whether the defendant is innocent or guilty. So is over a hundred cases pass through during that time.
Was a real eye opener to see criminals on murder charges coming in to make statements to the jury. In some instances, this was just a couple days after the incident so them men coming in in dey same clothes all kinda ting. Then they had undercover officers who look like criminals themselves.. Then we had victims coming in to testify, walking around to each juror to show bullet wounds, it even had a girl who look no more than 12 that get beat up by her child father
.. Plenty drugs and traffic violation cases.....
Hardest case to stomach was a murder of a 3 year old who was being severely abused prior to that. Being chained to the bed, beaten and probably even sexually abused and was eventually beaten to death my the mother's boyfriend. Madness.
They also had a Trini girl pass thru on an insurance fraud case. Nice young girl, bout 19 yrs in college and get caught up in a scheme with a man sitting in a car and crashing cars on purpose to fake accidents and collect medical claims. She come in to beg, i feel real sorry for her. Stupid girl had her whole life ahead of her and get caught up in that stupidness and now might have to carry that on her record for the rest of her life.
Interesting too was the people on the jury coming from from all walks.. Had ah italian looking fellah, i swear any time a drug case come up for vote, he voting against (go figure). Then the dotish girl they pick for the foreman of the jury like she thought she was on Judge Judy and want to question any and everything no matter how much times we try to explain to her that it wasnt a trial jury. Some day i take ah turn in she ass for trying to ban me from voting on a case on a technicality because she was trying to sway the jury and influence people vote.. The D.A. had to come in and settle the scene.
And last thing i learn from that.... Dem Police does RHELL LIE!!!