'Legally Blonde' star Reese Witherspoon was chosen as jury foreman after jurors thought she went to law school

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

TerryMiller

Sharpshooter
Special Hen
Joined
Jun 4, 2009
Messages
20,468
Reaction score
21,905
Location
Here, but occasionally There.
The judge can dismiss jurors as well, and probably dismisses most of those that get dismissed, most of the time. Each attorney usually gets a specific number that they can dismiss "without cause", or they can ask the judge to dismiss one for cause. The judge doesn't have a limit. I know it doesn't sound fair, buuuuut..... :rollingla

So if an OSBI employee was on the juror, the judge allowed it and the defense attorney probably did, unless he/she was out of dismissals. Most prosecutors probably wouldn't object, unless there was some other reason.

Probably so, as I sat for jury duty once, although I wasn't even "interviewed" by the attorneys. They picked the jurors and alternates before they got to me. One of the agents of the OSBI was at the prosecutor's table while I was there and told me later that they would have rejected me because of my employment with the OSBI.
 
Joined
Aug 8, 2009
Messages
2,985
Reaction score
7,207
Location
Cheyenne, OK
I remember her starring in "Wild". She's probably pretty liberal, but she took a position in that film I can certainly get behind.
As embarrassing as it is, I was today years old when hearing about this movie. It might be on my list to watch now, skipping that particular scene of course 😉
 


Write your reply...

Latest posts

Top Bottom