Juror ruins murder trial by hitting on bailiff
Chris Spags How hard up are you for a date? If you’re like one Connecticut woman, hard up enough to pass a note seeking a date to the bailiff while they were in the middle of a murder trial.
The NY Times reports that an alternate juror in a case of a man who allegedly killed three members of a Connecticut family tried to pass a note to a bailiff. The juror was allowed to stay because if she were dismissed, there would be no alternate jurors left, resulting in a mistrial.
The Judge Jon C. Blue said of the incident, “Although I am a romantic at heart, this was a damn stupid thing to do.”
The note the juror sent read “Sunday 5 p.m. Side Street Grille.” The juror passed the note to a court clerk but it did not make it to the bailiff whose heart she seeked.
The officer who the woman was hitting on had been reassigned when the trial reconvened.
I’m all for love and the idea that the truest love can sometimes be found in the strangest places. I’m also in favor of the notion that women are idiots who think that because it sounds like something Jennifer Aniston would do in a movie where she’s comically befuddled (how fresh!), that means they should try it. Obviously the only way to resolve this dispute is to have the love-hungry juror date the defendant. That seems like a suitable punishment for both, cruel and usual though it may be.
Alternate Juror’s Note Complicates Death-Penalty Case [Gawker]
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