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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPotential juror: Shkreli "kind of looks like a dick."
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/he-kind-of-looks-like-a-dick-potential-jurors-take-an-immediate-dislike-to-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli/"....More than 120 potential jurors were dismissed Monday from the federal court trial in Brooklyn, where Shkreli faces eight counts of securities and wire fraud related to his two hedge funds and the drug company Retrophin, reported the New York Times.
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I think hes a very evil man, said another woman. I dont think I can be fair. My opinion is pretty well formed. I wouldnt want to serve on this jury.
But even jurors who had never heard of Shkreli seemed to hate him on sight.
I looked right at him, and in my head, I said, Thats a snake not knowing who he was, said one woman.
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Another man just didnt like the looks of him.
He kind of looks like a dick, the man said."....
George II
(67,782 posts)rpannier
(24,339 posts)Put me on that jury and he's guilty
Which is why I should not serve on his jury
I can be impartial about 99% of people on trial
Him, I cannot
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)our objectivity in dealing with all kinds of patients. I'm afraid I'd be napping with my eyes open during the trial ( ) and voting Guilty the moment the jury deliberation room door is shut.
Warpy
(111,358 posts)They put Shkreli on the stand, he's toast. They allow the jurors a view of him sitting there smirking all through the trial, he's toast. And that's with 12 of us on the jury.
Some people project who and what they are and my best advice to them is to give up on grifting because they're going to get caught and no juror is going to give them a sympathy vote. Shkreli is one of those. He suffers from having what Germans call a backpfeifengesicht, a face in need of a slap.
I'd upgrade that to a punch, personally.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I'm writing that one down.
Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Sean Hannity... so many in that party of goblins that fit this exceptionally apt description.
Warpy
(111,358 posts)and put their stupidity on display. Shkreli can just stand in a corner silently and people will want to punch him.
That's the difference.
lastlib
(23,304 posts)one that'd make Billy Jack jealous!
madokie
(51,076 posts)and no felonies or any reason for but I've never been asked to be on a jury, not once in my lifetime.
Got busted for pot seeds back soon after returning from the war is my only sin
Yes I said POT seeds. I'd rolled those seeds down a shoe box lid or an album cover looking for a smidgen of reefer so many time I swear there was NO pot left in those seeds, none, nada zilch but got a 1 year deferred sentence anyway. Bastards all of them
Pot seeds were not illegal to possess at the time best I remember.
Glorfindel
(9,736 posts)I have served on grand juries, civil juries, criminal juries, and once even a coroner's jury. I got a jury summons while I was in Vietnam, but they wouldn't let me come home to do my civic duty. Serving on juries is tedious, boring, and inconvenient. Trust me, you haven't missed a thing.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)So many jury services and I most always get picked. In February of this year I served on a two-day trial and they called me again for May. I got out of it since they have this "one jury, one day" thing, but you better believe I'll get called again next year. Meanwhile, I know so many people who never get called. I don't get it.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)I had to ask to be excused because I am *severely* hearing impaired and I don't sign, and back then I had not managed yet to save enough money to purchase hearing aids. But they kept calling me every darned year and then excusing me after I sent in my request to be excused.
Finally I got a letter from them saying I was excused long term, but that the exemption could change in the future if they decided to call me again.
It was a real PITA to have to write up a request every year to be excused. Some people NEVER get called at all, but some people get called over and over and over again.
One time I actually had to go to the courthouse and go through jury selection. I had to have the woman next to me tell me what questions the lawyers were asking us. Sometimes she had to write the question out, because even with her that close, and even with reading her lips, I still couldn't understand a lot of what she said.
I finally was dismissed when I asked a question that the prosecutor did not like. They were trying a teenaged defendant for a Kwik Shop robbery. The prosecutor asked whether we would be in any way influenced by the fact that the kid was young. I asked how young he was, and that question made me persona non grata to the prosecutor, who peremptorily dismissed me from the jury pool. Ironically enough, the kid's age would not have influenced me if the evidence pointed to guilt. I was actually just curious.
Still, the fact that I couldn''t even understand most of what was being said in the courtroom should have been sufficient to get me out of there--and yet it wasn't.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)The defendant was charged with leaving the scene of an accident. We agreed that the man had caused the accident, that he was driving in an unsafe manner and was a menace on the public roads. However, we also agreed that he had not left the scene of the accident. He had merely gone on about a hundred yards to a place where his car would not be blocking traffic.
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)Saviolo
(3,283 posts)Except looking at Cruz, I feel like my hand would just land in a soft mass of melting skin. *shudder*
They both fill me with revulsion.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And that's saying something. That's how BAD Shkreli is. I actually think he might be more of a dick than Trump. It's definitely a toss up.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a sickening bunch of men they are! How do people grow up to be so evil and hateful?
Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... forced, fake smile with a smug, condescending air just beneath it - do make him look like a dick. They are the same expressions Trump uses. Must be a sociopath thing.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... I don't think he knows he difference himself.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)Helped convict someone of "felony stupidity", that was not actually the decision. He rented a big truck for a friend who did not have a credit card, he signed the contract. Friend left big truck on side of road with damaged tires and body. He did not think he was responsible, therefore felony stupidity due to value of the truck.
Always thought I would sincerely say that I would never vote for the death penalty, which I would not. That could disqualify you from a jury.
This guy could almost make me say "He deserves the death penalty".
Warpy
(111,358 posts)because he reminds me of every preppie putz who got into the Ivy League on daddy's coattails (and hefty donation) who was looking for ways to cheat his way through so he could graduate and grift his way through big business, again with a hefty assist from daddy's reputation.
IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)it would be hard to find people who don't have an opinion about him. Which is what a lot of celebrities' lawyers use to dismiss jurors.
His face does look very punchable. That should be part of any settlement offered: a punch to his smug mug from families of his victims
dhill926
(16,364 posts)PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)an evil dick!
This guy is in fact the face of corporate greed in America.
BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)And I am normally non-violent.
HuskyOffset
(890 posts)about Martin Shkreli is . . . he's not quite as bad as Adolf Hitler. Now, that being said, I think the only reason he's not as bad as Hitler is because he doesn't have the political power required to do what Hitler did.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)and that's beneficial to plants.
HuskyOffset
(890 posts)law blog lobs legal bombs . . . well done sir, well done. You are one helluva silver lining finder, I bow to you and stand before you corrected.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Whenever he's around.
LiberalFighter
(51,103 posts)He would had been in charge of throwing the lever to discharge the gas so he could rip out the gold teeth and take all of their jewelry.
paleotn
(17,989 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Shkreli did this to himself. And if he gets a severe punishment, few will have deserved it so richly.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)Because they would be his peers.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)There, I fixed it for you.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)But stinkier.
Ray Bruns
(4,111 posts)Lawyer for Shkreli, "Your honor, we would like to strike this juror."
Judge, "On what grounds?"
Lawyer for Shkreli,, "He his prejudicial against my client."
Judge, "How do you know this?"
Lawyer for Shkreli, "He stated my client looks like a "dick"."
Judge," That is not an opinion, it is a statement of fact."
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Judge: "Go for it. He looks like kind of a dick."
panader0
(25,816 posts)The price of life saving drugs is obscene.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)He could be thinking about a sandwich & look guilty.
JHan
(10,173 posts)MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)Wasn't there some precedent set recently where if you can prove even one juror had demonstrated discriminatory behavior in their lives, you can get the entire verdict thrown out?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)The Germans have the best word: Backpfeifengesicht - a face in need of a fist.
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)sheshe2
(83,928 posts)Equally nasty. Hmmm. I wonder if that is them posting.
mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)Bull
Dr Jason Bull, trial consultant.
http://www.cbs.com/shows/bull/
Beacool
(30,253 posts)He has a sense of decency.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)He's a man with no moral scruples.
lastlib
(23,304 posts)not big enough to be a full dick.............
Cha
(297,722 posts)Tanuki
(14,922 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Cha
(297,722 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,727 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)it was a personal injury case where the other driver was clearly at fault, and the client had some genuine, though not life-threatening, injuries. But she was so unlikeable, whiney and obnoxious that my friend knew that if he let a jury see her she'd either lose altogether, or at very best get a verdict much too small to compensate her for her actual damages. So he had to talk her into settling the case, which was tricky because he couldn't really tell her she shouldn't go to trial (which she wanted to do) because the jury would hate her. He did manage somehow, and got a fair settlement - though the cranky, whiney client thought it wasn't enough; what she did want was both unreasonable and impossible.
It's hard to be a lawyer for a horrible client. Everyone is entitled to fair representation but it's not easy to do it.
Vinca
(50,310 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)is that the juror said that directly to the judge, in response to a question from her. (She questioned numerous potential jurors in a sidebar with only the various attorneys present, so the replies wouldn't bias the other jurors.)
She apparently did not reprimand him for vulgar language. Brooklyn rules! (Perhaps).