MyOwn Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 17 minutes ago, MyOwn said: very rare for a criminal case to go to trial in Federal Court Huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Travis In Austin Posted December 5, 2020 Moderators Share Posted December 5, 2020 4 hours ago, MyOwn said: Beautiful @dwilawyer Thanks man. So Federal criminal cases generally don't got to trial? or is this only in Texas? If it's across the board for all not to go to trial, Why? Settling before Jury / Trial ? Most criminal cases in Federal Court don't go to trial anymore because of the inherent penalties of going to trial in that system and losing. But if you are set for jury selection in potential criminal cases coming up I don't want to say too much so as poison your thinking one way or the other. Hopefully you will get selected, I think we have had three on here get selected and share their experiences. You can tell us about the experience. A Federal criminal trial would be very interesting (unless it is a DUI/DWI on a Federal enclave or in a National Park). Next to military service, jury service is one of the highest callings a citizen can perform. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 15 hours ago, Tarheel said: That's what we call Carl's Martinis! Ans we call him slushie boy. Yea let's get realMmmmmm... a slushie. That sounds good right 'bout now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Travis In Austin Posted December 5, 2020 Moderators Share Posted December 5, 2020 3 hours ago, MyOwn said: Huh? [very rare for a criminal case to go to trial in Federal Court] The number of Federal Criminal trials has declined 70% from when I started, 60% from 1998. There are about 80,000 Federal cases filed annually, 90% are plead out pursuant to some form of plea bargain, 8% are dismissed, and about 2% go to trial. That's 1,500 or so, for the entire country. Some of those choose to waive a jury and have their case heard by a judge instead of a jury. There are about 600 to 800 jury trials a year for the whole nation in Federal Courts. Those break down into four general areas, Immigration Penalty cases, drugs, property, and violent crimes. There are about 3,000 violent Federal cases each year, of the 80,000 and about 7% of those go to trial. There were about 25,000 immigration cases in FY '18 and less than 1% of those went to trial, less than 100. In Texas, the State system, about 9/10ths of 1% have their cases resolved by jury trial. New York it's about 4%, Michigan a little over 2%, in California it is a bit above 1%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 12 hours ago, richieb said: Two things here - - he is much better looking than Carl - he has Much more hair than Carl. In fact he actually Has hair - Yea but I don't know him. I know Carl, distinguished Gentleman. And a good judge of bad whiskey. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted December 5, 2020 Moderators Share Posted December 5, 2020 The old question. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 13 hours ago, babadono said: Yea but I don't know him. I know Carl, distinguished Gentleman. And a good judge of bad whiskey. Too cold for slushie now. Bad whiskey is what I would drink if I had any. I'll have to settle for allocated bourbon tonight. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 17 minutes ago, dtel said: The old question. The answer? For some fowl reason. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 10:01 AM, richieb said: - he is much better looking than Carl Members should believe you as your the only one here that spends all his days studying and judging men's appearance. Quite the hobby you have there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroMara Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 4 minutes ago, Islander said: The answer? For some fowl reason. Who was there first, the chicken or the egg Who is afraid of chickens, has no eggs 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 14 minutes ago, CECAA850 said: your the only one here that spends all his days studying and judging it's worse than my Mother-in Law 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 46 minutes ago, CECAA850 said: Members should believe you as your the only one here that spends all his days studying and judging men's appearance. Quite the hobby you have there. Not all day. It’s the Cliff Notes version - a quick study — 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyOwn Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 @dwilawyer Thank you for the awesome answers. The next Jury / Trial is scheduled after my term is up. Unless this changes between now and 12/25/20 I don't see me going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroMara Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 3 hours ago, dtel said: The old question. Now I found out, it´s on the way to her lover, he´s waiting on the other street side 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NADman Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 4:06 PM, Shiva said: Hello, Is anybody here? Q. How many bones does a woodpecker have? A. Enough to keep his pecker up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtmudd Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 1 hour ago, NADman said: Q. How many bones does a woodpecker have? A. Enough to keep his pecker up. it's almost like what's the difference between a rooster & a prostitute . A rooster says cockadoodledoo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 I’ve had jury duty several times and gotten as far as voir dire, but I was always excused. Trial attorneys are afraid to have an attorney on their jury. Once the defense counsel in a OUIL case asked me if I’d prosecuted drunk drinking cases. I replied, “many.” He the asked if I won them all. I replied, “of course not.” He then. asked if I felt the juries had made mistakes. I said, “not necessarily.” He then excused me. He incorrectly assumed I would favor the prosecution. He failed to understand that I could easily vote for acquittal if the prosecutor failed to sustain the state’s high burden of proof, even if I felt the defendant were guilty. Being guilty and being proven guilty are not the same thing. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 29 minutes ago, DizRotus said: He incorrectly assumed I would favor the prosecution. oddly , you would have been an excellent Juror , and even an excellent Judge 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtmudd Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 2 hours ago, RandyH000 said: oddly , you would have been an excellent Juror , and even an excellent Judge that's why you always go with a jury trial... than a bench trial.. You have 12 people vs 1 person deciding your fate... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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