that your chances of getting a date from cross courtroom googley-eyes and consequent note-passing are not as promising as you might have thought (or initially hoped).
Let me clarify first by saying that I have not tried this one…I have not even ever had jury duty before (could I get paid for that?). And I’m in a stable and sickeningly happy relationship, so even in the instance that circumstances warranted courtroom note-passing, I definitely wouldn’t ever act on it (except for research purposes, duh). But I can see where this juror was going – very bold move, ma’am, I’m impressed.
The case: Steven Hayes is on trial for the murder of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters after he invaded their suburban Connecticut home in 2007 – the jurors were specifically deciding whether or not Hayes should receive the death penalty. Yikes. Such a weighted responsibility, however, could not deter a certain juror’s quest for love as she passed a hand-written note to the court marshal (via a fellow juror) requesting a dinner date for the following Sunday. Sigh. Who says the internet is sucking all romance out of dating these days? Alas! A story of true love survives! Except the juror was denied by the handsome court marshal and berated by the judge, a scene not unlike most traumatic-packed days in a middle school classrooms.
If only our juror had known earlier that her chances of securing a date were almost nonexistent – CNN ranks the courtroom of a murder case in their inappropriate places to get a date – perhaps she could have been spared this horrifying Buhbba-ism.
I applaud her boldness, though.
So, do you think this women can site this as a reason for never ever going to jury duty again?
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