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Speedtrucker

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  1. Batson challenge is always a big consideration in EDTX outside of the Plano jury pools.
  2. Hah I forgot about flight attendants! They are batshit crazy. That’s more of a rarity in a juror pool but yeah. And if it’s a white collar trial, never take commercial pilots. I always hear them say pilots love to avoid paying taxes and shit.. dunno, I don’t really deal with all that too much but you hear chatter
  3. Every trial team can have their own set of preferences but we are a district that potential jurors tend to be more conservative(it’s changing in one of my courtrooms but for the most part across most of the races, everyone leans much more conservative. So some don’t like young jurors, some don’t like senior citizens, some done like gun enthusiasts, some don’t like overly religious thinkers. Teachers and engineers are my main concerns. Engineers are usually the smartest persons in the room and way too over analytical. Too many bad experiences where we’ve had to let one on and they end up reinvestigating the case and exhibits, or they use the white board in the deliberation room to create their own flowchart… questioning shit that wasn’t even brought up in trial. It’s a pain and can hang a jury when everyone gets frustrated. Teachers, mainly elementary are often too opinionated and can hang a jury because they want to control the room and teach the “kids”/jurors that what they think is the only acceptable conclusion. They are adept at herding cats and it can be problematic in a jury room. I mainly do drug trafficking and child exploitation cases. The kid stuff is usually pretty cut and dry, picking a jury is basically finding 12 that can stomach sitting on that jury(it sad how high a percentage of every jury pool has had familial experience with this stuff) and then the deliberations usually don’t take too long. The drug trafficking takes more work to pick a jury because conspiracy is always a hard concept to explain to a lot of jurors. Which again is where engineers and teachers don’t help
  4. In fed court, that’s usually first up. We all are introduced, ask if anyone knows us, same for defense. We read our witness list, ask, defense usually doesn’t have to read theirs if they even have one. In general if someone does know them, it’s a fine line of follow up to avoid tainting the jury perception… Had someone recognize me once from grade school, I had him cut right away but his answers later were so dumb he was struck for cause. Recognized a few teachers of my children that didn’t realize they were my kiddos teachers. But as I’ve said I don’t like engineers and teachers, those are usually straight peremptory strike if we can’t find cause…
  5. So I can still bring my Challenger?!? Score! Wonder if that was just an oversight
  6. In! It’s gonna have Eastern District of Texas all over it when he comes to Paris for that Fannin County action! All of us have been hype, I had to miss when Ty came to present to us EDTX folks last year, the deputy marshals were all hyped because he brought one of his pistols. My wife liked/didn’t like the first episode; she can’t stomach slave-era trauma. We are in hard
  7. Lol that was a crazy ass episode. My wife was absolutely disgusted by it and we loved it
  8. Nice rug dude. It really ties the room together
  9. Today it’s been raining all day… 5 days of sun and 20pts winds before Saturday. Fingers crossed
  10. Hala Madrid! Jude is crazy. I’ve said it a bunch but dude is a midfielder that has a poachers eye. He always moving towards the attack
  11. Started this last night. Looks interesting.
  12. Through the first 4. Interesting. But the wife and I love Bosch-verse so we might be slanted opinions
  13. He must be upset about Israel as well. Either that or his secret boyfriend ghosted him
  14. Right and technically if Huyang was doing his job, he should have been charting the path. So they just need to repair her ship or snag a new one somewhere close by and then take a longer trip back home. Way behind Thrawn tho
  15. Oh right, need to add that to this long weekends family watch!
  16. I won it at Wet n Wild at their Pepsi station by the wave pool
  17. Loved that scene. Benicio can be a bad mofo.
  18. The first I had seen of her recently was the sequel to Valley Girl… she played a grown up Julie (deb foreman)
  19. It’s power was down to begin with, it’s been getting hammered by eye of scion gun ships, the space mines, etc, now as the ties made their straggling runs Huyang says they don’t have enough power for what she’s diverting. Which in reality was just to pull a Holdo maneuver.
  20. Watched Reptile last night. Not horrible, not great. It kinda felt like they didn’t quite know what type of movie they wanted to make. Lots of you thought it was gonna be this guy, wrong! Roundabouts. Benicio was great in it though. My wife and I liked it enough.
  21. Great episode… great finale… Thrawn is always amazing, sunnavabitch loves his aerial bombardments. His ronin speech to Ahsoka was perfect. Damnit the Baylan/Ray part hurt to watch. It was so perfect and yet sad to see. Agree they just need to recast, no cgi or “mask”. Chop I’m sure is gonna be ready to slaughter another 10-20k troopers after this. Ezra building another saber was a nice touch with Huyang. Nice reference to Kanaan and Caleb during their conversation about his thin saber and the emitter shield. Feel free to fix that YouTube link
  22. They’ve shown her light saber/bokken closet a few times already. Huyang looks to have kept them through his years post purge. Along with the marksman training remotes
  23. I think they have been alluding to some kind of relationship building between Bear and Jackie. Bev could see the snag coming when they were working together at the IHS. Rita references it when she is is leaving town and they both kinda shy away from each other.
  24. I like that. He could an anthology style series of different groups, families etc and I’d be down with that
  25. Lol I love that the Star Wars nerds have labeled Chop as the most dangerous droid. He has roughly 50,019 kills, and he’s tried to kill Ezra twice in season 1 of rebels. So yeah his lounge was absolutely with bad intentions!
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