civilized ku # 67 ~ first and last
Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 09:52AM 
Song and dance routine • click to embiggenYesterday was a day of firsts and lasts. It was the last day of my grand jury duty and it was also the first day of my new grandson's life - Helmut, an 8 lb. 3 oz., 19.5 in. addition to the Hobson clan.
My grand jury term of 3 months was an experience like no other I have ever had. It was by turns boring, tedious, emotionally taxing, depressing and downright stupid. My fellow jurors and I deliberated on 40 cases and handed down almost 200 indictments running the gamut from simple low-level drug sales, a surprising number of child sex-abuse cases, DWIs, assaults, stabbings, weapon possessions, identity thefts, to criminally negligent homicide. I learned that a DA can get just about any indictment he/she asks for, proving the prosecutorial adage - one that makes me very uncomfortable - that "you can get an indictment on a ham sandwich".
One thing that I absolutely did not expect to learn from my grand jury experience was the intricacies of clog dancing. However, thanks to our more than willing legal stenographer, performances of such were presented on a fairly regular basis.
Reader Comments (2)
Well congrats to you grandpa
Now that is a good photograph.