MAYBE THE GUY LOOKED LIKE FABIO

Photo of juror Gillian Guess
By Alex Waterhouse Hayward
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I guess the only reason I can come up with is that reading too many romance novels makes susceptible women stupid. How else would one go about explaining something like this? A woman who was serving on the jury in a trial was caught attempting to pass a note to a marshall. In it, she detailed the time and place that she wanted to meet him.

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This is an horrific case. I've left a link in case people want to read about it. The actions of this juror meant that there was a possibility the defence team could have sought a new trial. After all, how much was she paying attention to the evidence if she was so enthralled with checking out the marshall? There just might be reasonable grounds to suggest that the client did not get a fair hearing. Pity the loved ones having to sit through this again, not to mention the great costs to the tax payer. In brief, the man on trial, had broken into a home and attacked the father of the house. He was an ex-con on parole, who then proceeded to rape the mother and forced her to withdraw money from an account. For seven hours this family was subjected to sheer terror. In the end, gasoline was poured upon the bodies of the two children and the home set ablaze. The father, who had been beaten with a bat, bearly made it.

* Defense: Jail worse than death for Conn. defendant

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Couldn't this woman have kept her mind on the matter at hand rather then giving way to flights of fancy about finding "Mr Right." How romantic could the moment have been, when she made the decision to write it? She'd been listening to graphic details of death and viewed photos, yet she was thinking of a tyrst. Women have long bitched about men always thinking of booty-calls,

yet an individual such as this juror, is just as pathetic. It gives credence to the arguement that we're too emotional and thus cannot be trusted in positions of authority.

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I was reminded of the infamous case of Gillian Guess, who was the first juror to be tried for allowing her actions to cross the line. Gillian Guess did not remain an impartial jury member when she did her civic duty in judging Peter Gill. The eye contact and hair flipping was so over the top that others in the court reported it. They began to meet in Stanley Park, and after his acquittal, had regular contact. Authority was granted to wire-tap her phone and her house; including her bedroom. Ms Guess did herself no favours, as she seemed to thrive in the spotlight. Whilst complaining of being a single mother on a fixed income, she sported designer sunglasses and new outfits. In fact, the length of her skirts became an issue at her trial. People compared her to one of the characters in the British comedy "Absolutely Fabulous." Gillian was convicted and did time for her actions.

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Acting out in the same horndog way that only some guys do (most are decent and don't engage in that behavior), does not make women look emancipated. It makes them look stupid and slatternly. Please, don't even get me going on the types of women who send love letters to killers like Richard Ramirez and Ted Bundy. That's a whole other blog. Perhaps when they start selecting perspective jurors they need to weed them out by asking if they are devotees of really bad fiction and believe that unicorns are real.