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Sudoku Game Costs Taxpayers $950K
KUSA-TV 9 Denver | Submitted by: gargoyle1
"A judge halted a drug conspiracy trial Tuesday after some jurors were found to have been playing the puzzle game Sudoku while evidence was being given... Sydney District Court Judge Peter Zahra ended the trial Tuesday for two men facing a possible life sentence for drug conspiracy charges. The trial had been running for 66 days and had cost taxpayers an estimated $950,000."
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From: gargoyle1
Date: 10-Jun-2008 15:07
Bill the fucktards for the wasted trial. I know jury duty isn't all fun and games ( well, maybe ) but dammit, don't fuck around when you get the call for duty dammit.
From: forsakendecay
[Day]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 15:30
Alright. Something to do if I get called to jury duty. I mean, I can spot a guilty person from a mile away. Why pay attention? It's all between the eyes.
From: unferth [the weed assassin]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 17:07
Who really gives a shit? Call a mistrial, let the accused druggies run free, move on with your life. Don't waste any more of the taxpayers money with this stupid "War on Drugs" fucktardary.
From: fucktardmama [fook-me]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 18:34
I don't know what to think. I too pay better attention if I am writing or figiting. Cursed ADD. At the same time, after hearing hubbie's stories of when he sat on jury duty, quite frankly we all should be really really scared.
From: julezeebub [jules]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 18:45
I like logic problems, myself. But I can't concentrate when the lawyers won't shut up!
From: ciaochowbella
[I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 18:45
I don't have ADD, but I do find that doodling and the like can help me concentrate on verbal information. Plus, if prosecutors want to help their clients, they should make the info less protracted and more useful to the jurors. It cannot do a defendant any good if the jury is bombarded with mind-numbing facts and figures. Personally, I'd flip a coin just to be done with it.
From: mikeisgreen
[Mike]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 19:03
Don't give the jurors any trouble. Just pass a law allowing the State to reveal a juror's identity if he fucks around. The defendant will solve the problem, cost-free!
From: rotteneggs13
[a bakers dozen]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 19:18
I'm not sure exactly what 'drug conspiracy charges' mean in the land down under. But maybe the jurors were sick & tired of this 'war on drugs' nonsense as we in the states are and they had the attitude of 'fuck it, don't care'.
From: dennisisevil
[Dennis]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 19:20
From: unferth [the weed assassin] Date: 10-Jun-2008 17:07 Who really gives a shit? Call a mistrial, let the accused druggies run free, move on with your life. Don't waste any more of the taxpayers money with this stupid "War on Drugs" fucktardary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Agreed.
From: patsystonecheers
[Patsy Stone]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 20:17
I keep one sudoku paperback in the car (great when waiting) and the other in my bag (incase a want to NOT talk to people while waiting). The numbers help me focus. If I was on the jury I would prolly zone out and fall asleep.
From: wulfgarthewhite [Black to White]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 22:54
Sudoku? Is that some new kind of penis pump you honor?
From: hippityhopp
[bunny meat is good!]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 23:17
Huh, well at least they had the sense to do Sudoku rather than a crossword. Nothing says "I'm not paying attention", like asking the prosecutor mid-cross-examination if he knows a ten letter word for "slender alien fox"....
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 11-Jun-2008 03:39
Hamburgers will set you free. Our jury duty in NYC foley Square wrapped up quickly. Half the jury got hungry and couldn't wait to get to BurgerKing. They voted to acquit, over-riding 4 of us. Clear as day, this dude got caught with a shoebox full of coke.
From: piscivore [Michael C. Scott]
Date: 11-Jun-2008 06:18
If I'd been the judge, I'd have had the jurors arrested for contempt of court. As a juror, you owe that man in the dock a fair trial, because someday, it might be you or someone you know.
From: snatchvondrippy [snatch]
Date: 11-Jun-2008 12:02
agreed piscivoracious-held in contempt and fined cheese wads-if twiddlin yer thumbs innit enough-beg off
Updated: 12-Jun-2008 12:44
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