remember jury duty?
 

Do you guys remember when I was on jury duty last fall? I just found out that the defendant entered a plea of no contest this morning. The judge accepted and she got 5 years with time served. She has another 10 months to finish out her sentence and then she'll be deported back to Russia. Kinda anti-climatic.

yeah i remember coming in one day and u were talking about this.
Did you have to wait very long for an outcome.?

Well, she had 3 trials and 3 hung juries, including the one I was on (the last one).

I just got an email from one of my ex-fellow jurors. She went to the courthouse to observe the hearing. Said the reporter got the time wrong - the defendant has to serve 18 months, not 10. She'll be released Dec. 31, 2009 and immediately deported.

Why would they require the individual to serve a sentence in a domestic prison if immediate deportation is to follow. Is the criminal justice system just using taxpayer money to prove a point? Let the Russian authorities apply their legal system/penalties and deal with the perp...

My feelings exactly! Why should we pay for her to be housed and fed? Just send her back already!

Unfortunately that would require using common sense, something rarely found in "official policy"...

Someone just shoot her

Hey I got 20 bucks a day!

you're obviously a better juror than pauly shore.

I guess because they have no case to answer in the homeland, so being imprisoned in America makes sense, other wise criminals could go to any country and comit what ever crime and get sent home scot free.