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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 278123" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Years ago when you used to have to go down to the courthouse each morning for a week just in case you were needed, I worked with this woman who was kind of bored and lonely and very much a fundamentalist. She went the first four days, and wasn't picked for the jury, and was disappointed every day that she had to come back to work instead. This was also right after our state passed a law that a husband <em>could indeed</em> be found guilty of forcibly raping his wife.</p><p></p><p>The Friday, she got interviewed for a marital rape case. She swore that if the DA proved that the husband did what he was charged with, she could find him guilty. The facts were these:</p><p></p><p>A husband and wife are seperated. He comes drunk to her house and bullies his way into the door. He forces himself upon her while her children are asleep in the other room. He tells her that if she doesn't have sex with him, he is going to go home and get his shotgun and come back and kill them all. She has sex with him, calls the police, and he was arrested and charged.</p><p></p><p>The facts at trial proved that the man did <em>exactly</em> what he was charged with, that the wife was terrified, and would not have complied with him except that she was in fear for her life and her children's lives. The lady I worked with was the one hold-out. They deliberated for 10 days. It was a "not guilty" verdict. She gleefully told everyone who would listen that there was no way she was going to convict because it was a woman's duty from God to have sex with her husband whenever he wanted no matter what, and the wife was at fault. </p><p></p><p>The judge found out what the lady from my work did and declared it a mistrial, and the man was reindicted. The wife had had enough and refused to put herself and her family through it again. Juries definitely need intelligent fairminded people to give of their time. For the life me I will never understand why the rest of the jurors didn't rat the lady from work out. She should have been charged with a crime, in my mind. I mean, she put her reasons for voting in writing and sent it around work in e-mails. She bragged about it at meetings. It was disgusting.</p><p></p><p>But, I digress... again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 278123, member: 99"] Years ago when you used to have to go down to the courthouse each morning for a week just in case you were needed, I worked with this woman who was kind of bored and lonely and very much a fundamentalist. She went the first four days, and wasn't picked for the jury, and was disappointed every day that she had to come back to work instead. This was also right after our state passed a law that a husband [I]could indeed[/I] be found guilty of forcibly raping his wife. The Friday, she got interviewed for a marital rape case. She swore that if the DA proved that the husband did what he was charged with, she could find him guilty. The facts were these: A husband and wife are seperated. He comes drunk to her house and bullies his way into the door. He forces himself upon her while her children are asleep in the other room. He tells her that if she doesn't have sex with him, he is going to go home and get his shotgun and come back and kill them all. She has sex with him, calls the police, and he was arrested and charged. The facts at trial proved that the man did [I]exactly[/I] what he was charged with, that the wife was terrified, and would not have complied with him except that she was in fear for her life and her children's lives. The lady I worked with was the one hold-out. They deliberated for 10 days. It was a "not guilty" verdict. She gleefully told everyone who would listen that there was no way she was going to convict because it was a woman's duty from God to have sex with her husband whenever he wanted no matter what, and the wife was at fault. The judge found out what the lady from my work did and declared it a mistrial, and the man was reindicted. The wife had had enough and refused to put herself and her family through it again. Juries definitely need intelligent fairminded people to give of their time. For the life me I will never understand why the rest of the jurors didn't rat the lady from work out. She should have been charged with a crime, in my mind. I mean, she put her reasons for voting in writing and sent it around work in e-mails. She bragged about it at meetings. It was disgusting. But, I digress... again. [/QUOTE]
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