This is the best reason I’ve ever heard to live in New York.
Best if you’re a juror. If you’re a litigant or a defendant, well, not so much.
I spent a month on a jury in NYC. Would have been a great time to start smoking dust.
be stoned ON jury duty. OOOOOOOoooh.
I read that as **be stoned BY ** jury. Like with big rocks and stones.
Getting more tea… Carry on.
Well, if it’s my right, I expect they will provide some for me. After all, they don’t want to be infringing on my rights.
Man, I can’t WAIT to be called for jury duty.
OK. Cute as the idea of a right to be stoned on a jury is, that’s not what the ruling is saying. The ruling is saying that the legal definition of “outside influence” does not include self-induced consumption of intoxicants by a juror during deliberations.
Hey, at least this affords a logical explanation for some of the damage awards handed out, in addition to the ‘WTF were they thinking?’ guilty/not guilty determinations that you hear about.
I had jury duty for two weeks in the cheerful Bronx County Courthouse. Started in January, during a huge freakin’ snowstorm that did NOT mean court was postponed one second. I lost a temp job because I was out too long for them.
The area around the courthouse is fine, but a few blocks away I could have scored some great stuff. Damn. It woulda helped.
What are you, a fuckin’ lawyer? 
I don’t know how long ago this was…but they can’t fire you because you are on jury duty.
True enough, but I was at the end of the contract with no definite date, so they just moved it up a little. Very annoying. The agency said it was perfectly legal.