06-18-2018, 06:26 AM
Jury selection is scheduled to begin this morning.
Over 150 potential jurors may be called in order to seat 12.
I believe this is a much larger pool than usual. What is the expectation? That too many people are already familiar with details of the case? Or that it will be difficult to find 12 people on the Big Island who don't have a strong opinion about growing marijuana, for or against, which they are unable to set aside for the duration of the trial in order to hear details of the case in an objective manner?
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
Over 150 potential jurors may be called in order to seat 12.
I believe this is a much larger pool than usual. What is the expectation? That too many people are already familiar with details of the case? Or that it will be difficult to find 12 people on the Big Island who don't have a strong opinion about growing marijuana, for or against, which they are unable to set aside for the duration of the trial in order to hear details of the case in an objective manner?
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves