QotD

Aug. 10th, 2009 01:44 pm
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"You can't buy silence. You can only rent it. So if someone has something on you, they are always going to have it. So the cost has no ceiling. And the fear has no end to it. That's why some knowledge, some information is like a terminal disease. It's contagious and it's fatal."

-- spoken by the character Gregory Stark in Zero Effect, written and directed by Jake Kasdan. (at 1:18 in run time)
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Seems Bill Clinton was picked for jury duty.

Normally, you'd think the defense would want a former President to stay away from their client as much as possible, and the Prosecution would want the Chief Executive (Ret.) of the USA to be on the jury.

But, no... Exactly the opposite.

Some choice tidbits:

"The jury selection questionnaires in a case involving a gang shooting were supposed to be confidential, but there was a glaring clue to the identity of Prospective Juror No. 142 in federal court in Manhattan yesterday.

Where it asks for previous jobs held, he filled in President of the United States."


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"Judge Buchwald (the trial judge), who was appointed by President Clinton in 1999..."

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"Any particular questions on Questionnaire 142 that you want to direct me to?" Judge Buchwald asked the government.

"All of them, judge," a prosecutor, Daniel M. Gitner, said.

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