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Avoiding jury duty: it's about who you know
When randomly called up for jury duty, most of us wish we had a great excuse to get out of it and will often go to great lengths to avoid any time sitting in a court staring at the clock. But…
Lawyers Weekly
When randomly called up for jury duty, most of us wish we had a great excuse to get out of it and will often go to great lengths to avoid any time sitting in a court staring at the clock.
According to Lowering the Bar, Backderk was able to avoid his jury duty - not because he was ill or had an emergency situation - but because he's buddies with a serial killer.
Lowering the Bar says the questioning went something like this:
Question: "Has anyone you know ever been convicted of a crime?"
Answer: "I had a close friend in high school who killed 17 people."
Resulting statement: "We would like to thank and dismiss juror number eight."
Not surprisingly, juror number eight's honest answer was followed by silence and then a follow-up question: "Who?"
Apparently Backderk attended high school with former Ohio resident and now deceased serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
