2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2
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Guest, did you like the last podcast notification?? Well here's the second one, and for the third podcast! Yep. This Thursday 8-8-24 at 7pm Central
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That's pretty dumb, couldn't he defer it 6 months? I know that's an option everywhere I've lived.
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Kobayashi
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That's not getting out of it, it's deferring it to a more logical time. Every time I've ever had it, they let you push it back once. He literally has the perfect job to actually exercise that deferral. Wouldn't it make more sense to do his civic duty in the off-season? Personally, I think it sounds more like he expected to be let off because he's in the NFL and in the middle of the season.
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The article I read said Jones was prepared to get him out of it but he wanted to do it. I'm with him, I'm dying to sit on a jury. He's got a felony case. But there was no chance of it running over the weekend so he wanted to stay on the jury. I imagine whatever practice he needs to do can be done in the evenings.
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Kobayashi
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So, I don't know if Texas does it differently, but in the two states I've had jury duty (I've been in a jury for a trial twice and didn't get put on a trial the third), you are first sent a juror questionaire/summons in the mail - it will essentially tell you when/where you're expected to report and provide some contact information in case their records are wrong (you no longer reside in the county or are disqualified for some other reason) or you need to take a deferral (they're very explicit that you only get one and absolutely must report on the deferred date). You're not assigned a trial at this point, you're just in a pool of potential jurors for that day.
One of my trials was an attempted murder case that took two weeks. One of the guys selected was a surgeon who had surgeries lined up the rest of the week. The judge told him tough shit, guess you should have taken that deferral and made arrangements. The prosecutor or defense did him a favor and struck him in the voir dire, but they didn't have to. That's why I'm saying it was pretty dumb of him to not defer - there's no guarantee his trial would have wrapped up with timing convenient to his schedule and he had the opportunity to move things to a time where it absolutely wouldn't matter, while still having almost the exact same odds of serving as a juror if he was interested.
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Every county does it differently in texas. The best counties let you do it online and schedule it for a different date if needed, and as a bonus you get selected for a jury pool immediately. Rather than having to go sit in a jury room and wait for them to maybe come in and get you, before you get to sit through voir dire. I've never made it to a trial. I think the prosecutors keep striking me.
But I do not think he was at risk of missing games. First off, Jerrah could have gotten him out of it at any point. So if the judge suddenly decided they needed to be sequestered, I'm sure he would have been out. Second, are courts even open on weekends? I mean, yeah some are, but do they run trials over the weekend? We have at least 2 practicing attorneys in the dallas area on the board. They can probably answer that.
I remember one time there was a lady who raised her hand every time the judge asked for excuses. He'd have her come up to the bench and cut his mic, then she'd sit back down. The last time she did it, he cut his mic back on to say "irritable bowel syndrome is not a valid excuse. We can accommodate your bathroom breaks". I wish I knew all the other excuses she tried. He was clearly sick of her bullshit.
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I wasn't thinking he'd miss a game, just that he'd miss all the prep they do during the week and it would be an unnecessary distraction. As a place kicker, he's probably the lowest likelihood where that would matter, but personally I wouldn't want to evoke the scrutiny. If he misses a field goal or extra point this week it's going to come up.
The first trial I was on pissed me off with that shit. Every person in there had some angle they were trying to play to get out of it. The judge and this one lady had a 10 minute circular argument where she kept trying to say she couldn't be impartial and him breaking her logic to pieces. Jury selection took the entire day because of this.
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I sat on a 6 week death penalty murder case when I lived in California. Like you I wanted to have the experience. In that case basically any excuse would work. They didn't want anyone on that jury that didn't want to be there. Aside from whatever people came up with for reasons there were 3 or 4 times during the process where they asked you if this type of crime should always merit the death penalty, never merit the death penalty, or it depends on the situation. Either of the first 2 answers would get you off of the jury and everyone knew it.
It seems like a no-brainer for him to wait until the off season but of all the times I've had jury duty I've only been on a jury that one time so he might have been smart to do it when he had the chance. It's only practice after all.
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