Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Jury Duty with Jeffy

Episode Date: April 4, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. If you get picked for jury duty and you want to get actually get picked to go on the jury, answer the questions that the attorneys give you like you're a psychologist. And you will get picked every time. That's a Jeff Fisher fact. Because I have been called for jury duty three times, three times, and four times. and twice I'm out. They didn't pick.

They just said, here's your, you're done. They're not picking. Group number three, you could go home now. And your day is over. I know we canceled your workday for you, but just get out. And then, and I know you sat here for four hours in your morning. You could be doing other things productive, but thank you for being part of it. And the other two, you got called into voir dire.

And, you know, I answered the questions, just the way they wanted to hear you, answer those questions, just like a psychiatrist, a psychologist, questions back, question them back. If someone were to find out that they were accused of murdering someone, could you still look at them like they were a real person? well they were just accused right they're still a person what does that change ugh I think it picked every time

they'll put you on the jury they'll love you okay so there you go there's been a little helpful if you don't want to be picked for jury duty don't be a good answerer when they call you in to the attorneys okay

because otherwise you're on and then you're sitting on a jury for hours and hours listening to testimony and you've got to listen to testimony. The one case I was on, now I'm thinking about my last jury duty case, it was actually horrible. This guy beat this guy up almost to death. He was charged with, what the heck was the charge? It was like an assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or something like that.

But it wasn't manslaughter and wasn't murder. It was like assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or something like that. What he used was a drill, a drill with a cord, an electric drill. And he grabbed onto the end of the cord, and he swung it around like a lasso above his head, and he just banged this guy in the face. And he banged him in the face like two or three times. And he almost killed this guy. And I went through the whole case.

and with the whole thing thinking, you know, okay, he's not guilty, he's not guilty. Prove to me he's guilty. Prove to me is guilty. And at the end of the day, guilty. So with the case is over, we go back, the jury meets up and, you know, you got to be, somebody's got to stand up in the courtroom and say, we have, Your Honor. Guilty is charged. Not guilty. And, you know, all right, I'll do it. Fine. I'll be the one. No problem. I'll look him in the eye and say guilty.

and then, and then, you know, I mean, this judge wanted it done that day because we went into, uh, discuss the case like late in the afternoon, late. The trial, when the trial got started late morning and went on for hours. We even had to break for lunch. It seemed like it was never going to end. I thought for sure we were going to come back, have to come back the next day. And the judge is like, I'd know.

We're getting this done today. And so you guys go back and, uh, work it out. see where you're at. And we ended up, we got it. It was we were done. Like we finished it up, said he was guilty, talked about it for, I don't know how long, quite a while. Because there was one lady who was, well, you do, no, he's guilty.

And so we came back and it was, you know, early evening. And we have your honor. Guilty is charged. And so then he said, okay, thank you for your jury. You can leave or whatever. And as soon as we said that, he said, okay, we're going to do sentencing. And we all kind of looked and he goes, you can stay for sentencing if you want. So, I mean, I think everyone in the jury sat down.

And what the heck, we're already there, right? We're there. And we've gone through this whole day. Why are we going to leave now? Let's find out what happens to this guy. And so they get to the sentencing track. I mean, the judge is like 8 o'clock at night. The judge is like, no, we're doing this now.

I want this off my docket. So we get to the sentencing phase. this guy that we have not heard about this at all. We heard nothing of his past. I should say very little of his past. He had already had been arrested many times. And he was arrested many times for assault, drugs, been in jail several times. And so after this case, I mean, he went away for seven.

years. And he probably should have been more, actually. I mean, he almost killed that guy with that drill. And you think about that, an electric drill with a cord swinging around like that, how bad that would hurt. I mean, the guy almost died. His face was still messed up when he took the stand. It's bad. And he got seven years right there, boom, seven years. You're going down. Prison, not jail, prison.

And, I mean, I hope he's okay now. I hope the guy, you know, turned his life around in prison and came out and was leading a productive life. But anyway, hey, the Jeff Fisher trial story.