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sjfcontrol wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote: Yep... keep that in mind when you want to exercise your constitutional rights over a speeding ticket in the city of Plano. You may end up with me on the jury, irritated that your trying to pull a quick one so you don't have to cough up a couple hundred bucks.

Hmm, hope you're never brought to trial for exercising your gun rights (accidentally carrying ammo into a court house, for example), and some juror thinks your 2-A rights are trivial (i.e., "He's just a gun nut -- fry 'em"). If you can trivialize someone else's rights, they can trivialize yours. I presume since you were dismissed, you never heard whatever his case was. Perhaps his rights were actually violated, and he wanted to make a point of it. Since it was a jury trial, I presume he was paying a lawyer. I'd bet he was paying the lawyer as much, or more than the fine would be. I doubt he was just trying to save a couple hundred bucks.

Most speeding ticket trials are a joke. Ticket lawyers gather many tickets at the same time and bomb the court with them hoping for relief. Thanks for your well thought out opinion, just the same.

Oh yeah... check out your local TV guide. Ticket attorneys charge 50 bucks a pop. The whole thing is a great big joke. So your other assumption is way off base as well as your analogy.

Well, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
By the way, I haven't seen a TV Guide in probably a decade. Onscreen Guides Rule!

sjfcontrol wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote: Yep... keep that in mind when you want to exercise your constitutional rights over a speeding ticket in the city of Plano. You may end up with me on the jury, irritated that your trying to pull a quick one so you don't have to cough up a couple hundred bucks.

Hmm, hope you're never brought to trial for exercising your gun rights (accidentally carrying ammo into a court house, for example), and some juror thinks your 2-A rights are trivial (i.e., "He's just a gun nut -- fry 'em"). If you can trivialize someone else's rights, they can trivialize yours. I presume since you were dismissed, you never heard whatever his case was. Perhaps his rights were actually violated, and he wanted to make a point of it. Since it was a jury trial, I presume he was paying a lawyer. I'd bet he was paying the lawyer as much, or more than the fine would be. I doubt he was just trying to save a couple hundred bucks.

sjfcontrol wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:I carried a magazine full of .45 ammo into the Plano Municipal Court. I realized it was in my pocket after I was already standing in front of the basket. I decided to play through rather than act like a noob. I tossed the magazine into the basket with my keys and change. Went through the machine and the guy grabbing the baskets handed the basket to me without so much as a "by your leave". I reloaded my pockets and went in to hang a traffic violator who was costing me time by fighting a darned ticket instead of just taking defensive driving like everyone else. They dismissed me after I made a joke about whether or not I could give the defendent the death penalty. The judge even laughed at my little joke.

1) "They" tend to have an atrophied sense of humor. I know somebody who was threatened with contempt of court for making a joke during jury selection. Of course the questioning lawyer was the butt of said joke.

2) So, you're saying you would deny somebody his constitutional right to a trial by a jury of his peers, because you felt he was wasting your time?