{"id":8114,"date":"2003-03-02T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2003-03-02T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/03\/02\/bubba-the-juror\/"},"modified":"2003-03-02T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2003-03-02T19:16:31","slug":"bubba-the-juror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/03\/bubba-the-juror\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubba the juror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Former President Bill Clinton has been tapped<br \/>\nfor jury duty.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">A questionnaire designed to help defense lawyers and<br \/>\nprosecutors select a jury for a federal attempted murder case indicated that<br \/>\nProspective Juror No. 142 was actually William Jefferson Clinton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8230;&quot;Any particular question in Questionnaire 142<br \/>\nthat you want to direct me to?&quot; Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald asked the prosecutors,<br \/>\nthe Times reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;All of them, judge,&quot; a prosecutor, Daniel M. Gitner,<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> &#8220;I suspect there has never been anyone who answered yes to<br \/>\nso many questions and survived the voir dire process,&#8221; said Buchwald, referring<br \/>\nto the next step in the jury selection process &#8211; a personal interview that prospective<br \/>\njurors who were not removed by the judge would undergo.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/customwire.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/C\/CLINTON_JURY_DUTY?SITE=WIMIL&amp;SECTION=BUSINESS\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I can just imagine the interview in the voir dire process:<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Buchwald: Please state your name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Clinton: I would plead the fifth on that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Buchwald: Excuse me, you can&#8217;t plead the fifth for a jury<br \/>\ninterview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Clinton: Oh sorry, force of habit. It depends on what the<br \/>\nmeaning of name is. People have called me plenty of names and I have gone by<br \/>\nmany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Buchwald: Just the name on your birth certificate please.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Clinton: William Jefferson Clinton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Buchwald: State your occupation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Clinton: Women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Buchwald: No not your preoccupations but your current job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Clinton: Lecher. Oops I meant lecturer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Buchwald: Have you ever been convicted of a felony?<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Clinton: No not yet, I mean no.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Buchwald: Do you know anything or have any involvement in this<br \/>\ncurrent case before us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Clinton: Well that semi-plump women looks familiar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Buchwald: What? No that&#8217;s the court stenographer please direct<br \/>\nyour attention to the defendants in this murder case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Clinton: Well it wasn&#8217;t murder it was a suicide and it really did<br \/>\nhappen at Ft. Marcy park and the FBI agents fired no shots at the compound and the Branch Davidians started the fire all on their own and I had nothing to do with all those people dying around me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Buchwald: You must be confusing this case with something else,<br \/>\nwe are trying an attempted murder by a gang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Clinton: (Pointing his finger) I did not have contact with<br \/>\nthat gang!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Former President Bill Clinton has been tapped for jury duty. 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