Jury duty

My wife got called in for jury duty years ago, when we were dating. (She actually gets called twice a year - she has a hyphenated last name and we think she is on the jury rolls for each last name.). She got to voir dire and one of the attorneys was asking a sort of convoluted question about whether she could understand the difference between intending to do an action that could end up being a crime and intending to actually commit a crime, and she excitedly responded "Oh, you mean the difference between general and specific intent?" The attorney gave her the stink eye and said "How do you know those terms?" to which she replied "Oh, I was helping my boyfriend (me) study for his Crim final." Needless to say she was excused.

She wasn't trying to get out of jury duty, she was just so excited that she totally understood was going on. internet what GIF
 
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I am 61. I have been called for jury duty dozens of times but only sat once. I was 20 years old in 1984. Lived and worked off campus, but had a roommate who had a Carolina Blue Gran Torino who would drive us both to campus and back home at the end of the day. I had to borrow his car for a week to drive to Hillsborough for the case. It was a murder case with D.A. Fox trying it. Was the first case in Orange County to be acquitted by reason of insanity in over 50 years. Ending up buying a lawnmower from Fox later, but luckily, he didn´t recognize me.
 
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