I argued with the judge during the jury selection. He challenged my statement that my mind was already made up. “How can that be when they haven’t presented any evidence!” “Well, they laid everything out for the last ten jurors, so I think this whole suit is a waste of time, and you should simply dismiss it.”
He seemed to think I was just trying to go home without serving, but he still was obliged to dismiss me. And he warned the other prospective jurors not to believe my opinions, as I wasn’t part of the case.
I was questioned as the defendant in a civil trail as the defendant(Stupid bitch pulled out in front of me without insurance and wanted my insurance to pay for her ‘closed head trauma’) It was kind of wierd because things went out of order. None of her ‘witnesses’ [sub] whores and quacks[/sub] made it to the courthouse and since she wanted her clients sob story as late as possible, her only thing was call me as the first witness. She clearly wasn’t prepared to examine me, and I hadn’t been prepared (but all I had to do was tell the truth anyway) since my lawyer expected her to call me on a later day.
So it was a meandering examination in which she hadn’t even read my deposition and was stalling for time by asking pointless questions.
why weren’t you allowed to play beer pong?
One time I was handling a small civil procedure case myslef, without representation.
I called my first and only witness, who only had to testify that she had known me for over a year. I said, “So, how long have you known me?” “About 9 months” I said, “Don’t you remember, you came to two of my New Year’s Eve partys”. “But I didn’t really know you the first time. you were just my husband’s friend.”
At that point the judge said “If you were a lawyer, I would scold you for tyring to provide testimony or coach your witness. But, since she seems to have actually met you over a year ago, I’ll allow it.”
I’ve witnessed several accidents and stayed around to give my statement. In some of them I was contacted by the various insurance companies for more info. No big deal in any of them.
I appeared before a judge last year as a defendant. I told the *truth. The plaintiff lied through her teeth. The judge ruled in her favor, that I owed her $2000, and that my house was to be searched.
So I was really disappointed when I got the news in May of this year that the plaintiff had died after a three month battle with cancer. I wish that hateful bitch had suffered much, much longer.
*That I had, through my own negligence, lost some family photographs belonging to the plaintiff. I had made numerous copies, but she demanded the originals–which I could not supply.
My husband and I were deposed by a fresh-out-of-a-non-top-tier-law-school lawyer in our suit against an automaker. She was woefully underprepared (I think it really was her first depo, ever).
Hubby went first. Her first question after “state your name, etc” was “Have you ever been in a deposition before?” Husband answered no, after a brief pause. She pounced- “You hesitated! Why is that?” Hubby answered that, since he used to be a criminal prosecutor, he wanted to make sure in his mind that he hadn’t actually been deposed before he answered in the negative, assuming that “deposed” is what she had meant.
She went white as a sheet. She actually stammered her next question, and she never got back on track. It was pretty sad, actually.