Kevin Gowen wrote:
> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> 
>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>
>>
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>>>However, once I did get called while I was visiting home for the
>>>holidays, so I served. I was foreman and we put a thug away for pulling
>>>an armed robbery on an old man. I got to say, "GUILTY!"
>>>
>>>Good times.
>>
>>
>>How hard was it to reach a unanimous decision?
> 
> 
> Not hard at all. It was a very open-and-shut case. A thug pointed a gun
> in an old man's face and stole his wallet and prescription eyeglasses. A
> cop happened to be a block away. The escaping thug ran past the patrol
> car and threw the gun under a mattress leaning on a dumpster, then tried
> to climb over a fence behind the dumpster. He failed. Cop nabbed the kid
> and the gun.
> 
> I showed up for jury duty that morning, and the trial started after
> lunch. Trial was over after an hour or two, and we just came back in the
> next morning for closing arguments and deliberation. It didn't take long
> to deliberate. Six person jury, by the way.
> 
> The kid should have taken the deal the D.A. offered (70 months). I felt
> sorry for the public defender.
> 


70 months? You get less for murder in Japan.