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Aug. 14th, 2009 05:06 amFrom an email wherein I described what I'm doing next Thursday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bleakone (because I didn't feel like retyping anything)
There are a bunch of market research type survey companies around here, and I signed up for all of them (same for some of the online ones--I've made $80 off of ValuedOpinions.com so far). Somebody from one of these called me about being on a panel, and I was able to figure out from the qualifying questions that it's a fake jury thing. I just know about them from the sadly short-lived law TV show Shark (JERI RYAN FTW--she's why it died, in fact, she had a baby during the writer's strike and didn't come back for the few episodes of the season left over and neither did the viewers). They "empanel" (which can be spelled with an e or an i, thank you very much spellcheck trying to tell me that I'm wrong) a fake jury and try stuff out--tactics, what witnesses get sympathy, that sort of thing. Practice rounds for some of the more high power, high dollar trials. From the questions, I think this is a trucking company suing/being sued (couldn't tell criminal or civil or what side anybody was on from the screener call) after an accident/accidents that resulted in fatalities. They asked me if I knew huge lists of people (one entire family's worth of the same last name, which I figure means they're the ones that died or something) or knew anybody that worked for trucking or a list of law places, and if I was okay with seeing graphic pictures of. . . idk how she said it exactly, but to dramatize, I'll say DECAPITATED AND CHARRED BODIES, OMGOMG.
Needless to say, I was in. I really really really want to be on a real jury (for a good case, not something stupid) because that's how I'm going to satisfy my lawlove since I'm doing the science track school-wise(at least until I fail the MCATs), but this is probably just as good. So it's like 9 to 5 next Thursday at the research company's HQ. I think at about 4:30 (so it's too late to kick me out, as I'm sure if I'd told them about how I'm better versed in the laws of criminal procedure than most law students they wouldn't have let me in) I'm going to start making objections. If there are blatant screwups earlier than that, I'll have to try hard to restrain myself, LOL.
Speaking of Shark, I'm going to have to try to find those. Now that I'm thinking of it, I really want to rewatch them. James Woods and Jeri Ryan had a rapport that was just magnificent.
(*laughs at icon* Practicing the clarinet, LOLOLOLOL.)
bleakone (because I didn't feel like retyping anything)There are a bunch of market research type survey companies around here, and I signed up for all of them (same for some of the online ones--I've made $80 off of ValuedOpinions.com so far). Somebody from one of these called me about being on a panel, and I was able to figure out from the qualifying questions that it's a fake jury thing. I just know about them from the sadly short-lived law TV show Shark (JERI RYAN FTW--she's why it died, in fact, she had a baby during the writer's strike and didn't come back for the few episodes of the season left over and neither did the viewers). They "empanel" (which can be spelled with an e or an i, thank you very much spellcheck trying to tell me that I'm wrong) a fake jury and try stuff out--tactics, what witnesses get sympathy, that sort of thing. Practice rounds for some of the more high power, high dollar trials. From the questions, I think this is a trucking company suing/being sued (couldn't tell criminal or civil or what side anybody was on from the screener call) after an accident/accidents that resulted in fatalities. They asked me if I knew huge lists of people (one entire family's worth of the same last name, which I figure means they're the ones that died or something) or knew anybody that worked for trucking or a list of law places, and if I was okay with seeing graphic pictures of. . . idk how she said it exactly, but to dramatize, I'll say DECAPITATED AND CHARRED BODIES, OMGOMG.
Needless to say, I was in. I really really really want to be on a real jury (for a good case, not something stupid) because that's how I'm going to satisfy my lawlove since I'm doing the science track school-wise(at least until I fail the MCATs), but this is probably just as good. So it's like 9 to 5 next Thursday at the research company's HQ. I think at about 4:30 (so it's too late to kick me out, as I'm sure if I'd told them about how I'm better versed in the laws of criminal procedure than most law students they wouldn't have let me in) I'm going to start making objections. If there are blatant screwups earlier than that, I'll have to try hard to restrain myself, LOL.
Speaking of Shark, I'm going to have to try to find those. Now that I'm thinking of it, I really want to rewatch them. James Woods and Jeri Ryan had a rapport that was just magnificent.
(*laughs at icon* Practicing the clarinet, LOLOLOLOL.)
