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   Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 06:06:12 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

   Just finished 7½ days of jury duty over a trial covering 2½ weeks of time. 2 days of jury selection. 2 days of witnesses and evidence. 1 day of jury instructions and closing arguments. 2½ days of deliberations for 2 phases.

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     HumToTable (humtotable@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 06:07:16 JST HumToTable

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     @kingrat Dang!

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     edgeworth (edgeworth@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 06:20:50 JST edgeworth

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     @kingrat Thank you for your service!

     Do you feel like justice was served?

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 06:42:26 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • edgeworth

     @edgeworth We were answering whether he did some specific things. None of this experience changes my view that we ill serve people with how we sentence and not rehabilitate people convicted of crimes.

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     edgeworth (edgeworth@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 07:19:14 JST edgeworth

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     @kingrat Yeah ever since I’ve had similar opinions I’ve been released from consideration for juries

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 07:55:30 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • edgeworth

     @edgeworth I usually get excused because my brother was a police officer for nearly 2 decades.

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 14:13:35 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     Some stenographer wrote a story for Bay City News (no idea what that outlet is) based entirely on the prosecutor's statement.

     https://patch.com/california/san-francisco/amp/32193797/man-convicted-in-safeway-machete-attack

     What the statement and story leaves out is that the security guards made this a lot worse by how they handled it. They used a very slight provocation to prompt a fight. By their own testimony, they should have done something very different. (I'll post something to my blog this weekend.)