I began jury service today in federal court. With my track record – which one has to detail in every voir dire – it will be interesting to see if attorneys for either side will have me sit on their cases.
I’ll report back when it is all over.
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Suzann Collins & Sedley Alley
In the photo insert of our new book, LAW & DISORDER, there are facing pictures of Suzanne Marie Collins on the left and Sedley Alley on the right. The image of Ms. Collins is an official U.S. Marine Corps photograph, a portrait taken just after she completed boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina in August 1984. With a waving Stars and Stripes in the background, the trim, light-haired eighteen-year-old beauty is in her uniform and eagle, globe and anchor cap, smiling at her hard-won accomplishment. She hoped her future endeavors in the corps would lead to her twin dreams: to graduate from the Naval Academy and be part of the first class of female Marine fighter pilots.
Instead, in eleven months she would be dead.
Law & Justice
Just when we might have thought that losing Republicans Missouri Representative Todd Akin and Indiana Senate hopeful Richard Mourdock were neanderthal aberrations when it came to the subject of “forcible” rape, comes word of the admonition of Orange County, California, Superior Court Judge Derek G. Johnson by the state’s Commission on Judicial Performance.
It seems the commission – better late than never – has just gotten around to reviewing a sentence Judge Johnson gave out – or rather didn’t give out – back in 2008. So if you’re wondering where Akin and Mourdock might have picked up their arcane views in the intervening four years, look no further.
Jonathan Groff, star of Netflix MINDHUNTER, recording the voice of the audio version of THE KILLER ACROSS THE TABLE.
