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...decided to be more open to the possibility of serving on a jury. Sure enough, after a day and a half of waiting at the courthouse I was called in for a domestic abuse panel. The courtroom, the judge in his robes, the defendant consulting with his lawyer, even the bailiffs with their not-so-inconspicuous weapons, awed me. “I should do this,” I thought...
...family at a lovely Italian restaurant was like having emotional jet-lag. My life was now divided in two, one half normal and bourgeois, the other entirely invested in the drama unfolding in court: Ariane on one end, Saul on the other, along with the smooth-talking defense lawyer and the solemn district attorney...
...deliberations began I had no clue what would happen. What if everyone in the jury thought Ariane was lying? Would I have the guts to stand up to them and say I believed her? I was particularly nervous about Melina, a blonde, perfectly-attired lawyer and mother of an infant—a driving force behind the gourmet lunches. At one point, Melina made an offhand comment about one of the witnesses being “full of shit” that seemed to mark her as my future nemesis...
...engaged, Penkala was given 30 days to report to Fort Sill, Okla., and was told he'd be back in uniform for at least a year. "I supported the President's decision to go to war. I would be a hypocrite if I didn't serve," says Penkala, a lawyer from Bristol, R.I., who is to depart this week for the Middle East. "However, I think [the call-up] shows the need for a larger Army...
...questions raised by the Guantanamo ruling, and by another one concerning Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen imprisoned since his capture in Afghanistan in 2001. In that case, the court decided that while the President can deem American citizens "enemy combatants," he cannot deny them access to a lawyer and a chance to answer the charges before a "neutral decision maker." The Supreme Court left it to the Bush Administration and lower courts to devise a way for Hamdi to challenge his detention...