dogboysdad
12-29-2011, 05:53 PM
It would seem that our fearless leader's oldest son has chosen the make his girlfriend, Sarah, an honest woman. The two were married today by a justice of the peace in an intimate ceremony in downtown Jerome, Michigan.
I was trying to think of something appropriate to say at this special moment, and all I could think at first was what a happy day today is.
Actually, what I really thought about is jury duty. Now, I don’t know how many of you have ever served on a jury, but it’s a fascinating process. I was just on a jury last year for the first time in my life, despite trying many cases to juries on behalf of my clients. It was a pretty serious case. It was actually a murder trial. It was very tragic. It was this old man who got killed, very sad. He was getting money out of an ATM machine in the middle of the day, and some gang kids came up and robbed him and shot him right in the face.
It was a cut-and-dry case, really. There were plenty of eye-witnesses, and the forensic evidence pointed straight to one kid as the shooter. The kid was definitely guilty. But here’s the thing – it was actually a capital offense. And my jury had to decide whether or not to give this kid the death penalty. Now, I don’t know if any of you have ever had to decide whether somebody should live or die, but it’s emotionally intense. We all knew the kid was guilty, but the death penalty is nothing to take lightly. In the end, though, we decided, ‘Yes, this kid needs to die.’ And we sent him to his death.
That was probably the worst day of my life. And I got to thinking about it because that day was nothing like today, which is a happy day. A really happy day! So here’s to Nick and Sarah!
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I was trying to think of something appropriate to say at this special moment, and all I could think at first was what a happy day today is.
Actually, what I really thought about is jury duty. Now, I don’t know how many of you have ever served on a jury, but it’s a fascinating process. I was just on a jury last year for the first time in my life, despite trying many cases to juries on behalf of my clients. It was a pretty serious case. It was actually a murder trial. It was very tragic. It was this old man who got killed, very sad. He was getting money out of an ATM machine in the middle of the day, and some gang kids came up and robbed him and shot him right in the face.
It was a cut-and-dry case, really. There were plenty of eye-witnesses, and the forensic evidence pointed straight to one kid as the shooter. The kid was definitely guilty. But here’s the thing – it was actually a capital offense. And my jury had to decide whether or not to give this kid the death penalty. Now, I don’t know if any of you have ever had to decide whether somebody should live or die, but it’s emotionally intense. We all knew the kid was guilty, but the death penalty is nothing to take lightly. In the end, though, we decided, ‘Yes, this kid needs to die.’ And we sent him to his death.
That was probably the worst day of my life. And I got to thinking about it because that day was nothing like today, which is a happy day. A really happy day! So here’s to Nick and Sarah!
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