Miscellaneous

An Insult to Community Service

By Anne Skove, Esq.

• Mistake number one: failing to appear for jury service.
• Mistake number two: failing to appear for jury service (again).
• Mistake number three: threatening to blow up the courthouse. (Do you see a pattern here?)

What possible sentence might this conduct garner? It adds up to two years' probation plus 100 hours community service.

We'd love to know just what she'll be doing -- helping shelve books at the local library? Caring for bomb-squad dogs? Brewing juror coffee?

We leave it to Doug Berman to dream up a better sentence for this woman.

See Woman Who Threatened to Bomb Courthouse over Jury Duty Gets Probation, Public Service, Chicago Tribune (October 17, 2008).

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on October 18, 2008 (boomark / email).