Off-Topic . . . . A Little Bit of Humor on Jury Voir Dire
Okay, we digress a bit, but we share this gem from the recent American Bar Association Journal, a classic for any litigator.
Posted by ARog: "A judge in our court likes to tell about voir dire in a criminal trial where the charge was conspiracy to distribute cocaine base. The judge’s questioning went like this:
Judge: Does anybody on the panel know the defendant or any of the lawyers?
Prospective juror: I do.
Judge: Which person do you know?
Prospective Juror: The defendant.
Judge: How do you know the defendant?
Prospective juror: I bought crack from him.
The judge excused the entire panel."
The Age of Drugs. Illustration shows the interior of a drugstore with an elderly man, the pharmacist, dispensing a "Bracer" to a crowd of eager consumers, while a young girl secures a bottle of "Soothing Syrup." On the counter are bottles and packets of "Arsenic, Strychnine, Antipyrin, Nerve Stimulant, Opium, Cocaine" and "The Needle." Signs on the wall state "The Killem’ Quick Pharmacy," "Open all night," and "Prescriptions carefully compounded." The saloon keeper leans against a column and laments that he cannot "begin to compete with" the drug trade. Louis Dalrymple, artist. Library of Congress.