Dear Floriduh, don't call me I will not serve

[HockeyMom]

on your Kangaroo Courts. I am prejudiced enough against your state, and if I have to act like a raving lunatic to get out of serving your state and brand of justice, I will.

Let your other starry eyed, sunshine, brain fried transplants serve you. Leave me out of it.

Count this as another "bash Florida" post, but from one of your own residents.

[edgineered]

1. Just the opposite

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE call me for jury duty!

Innocent until proven guilty - you better believe it.

5 against me - doesn't matter - I know there are things I've seen with my own eyes that have turned out to be different than I thought.

Racists, bigots, sexists, ists of any ists-istance only make me stronger!

I've seen you on here for a very long time, so I know you are fair, so don't try to BS me HockeyMom!

[bigwillq]

2. You should serve.

Maybe you can change a thing or two.

[BainsBane]

3. That makes no sense

It only makes it more likely to produce a skewed jury pool. Besides, it's illegal to avoid a jury summons.

[NightWatcher]

4. Don't refuse to serve then bitch about stupid juries. Serve

and help get one right.

[spin]

5. The Zimmerman verdict would have been the same in many states. ...

The bottom line is the prosecution failed to build a solid case. The evidence presented was unconvincing and many if not most of the prosecution's witnesses seemed to be on Zimmerman's side.

I will agree that if the incident had happened in New York State there would have been a higher chance that Zimmerman would have been convicted. That's largely because it would have been far easier to select a jury that knew little about firearms and who found it odd that someone would carry a weapon when shopping. Firearm ownership is fairly common in Florida and most people know a friend or co-worker who has a concealed weapons permit. Several members of the jury had firearms in their homes and one had once had a carry permit.

[marions ghost]

6. I might be the only one to applaud you

but until we address the flawed jury system (and it's not only in Florida)--the way jurors are selected and other issues--it would be more honest not to participate than to participate. I don't see how we'll get change otherwise. It's certainly to the benefit of lawyers and those involved to keep it the way it is. Until something goes wrong, like what happened in Florida. But, one correction, people in other states can have similar injustices done to them. We just don't hear about them all the time. People who think the jury system works--take another look at it.

So I get where you are coming from and I applaud your willingness to say it.

[Lancero]

7. You think it honorable...

To not help that which is corrupt.

But in your case, it isn't.

Yours is the move of a lazy coward. One who having the choice to help rid the system of corruption, but refusing to do so.

You are as bad, perhaps worse, then the corrupt. Because you, by your inaction, are only allowing this flawed system to become further entrenched.