Jury Duty

[jonbosco]

In 1974, when I was not even 21, I sat on a jury for five weeks. Things I remember about that:

The courtroom was in the old Courthouse at Minneapolis City Hall in Hennepin County (and not in the new Government Center) since it was a change of venue from a southern county. The courtroom felt like a courtroom (closer to To Kill a Mockingbird than to

Comments

[tolarjev]

What a monster! So happy the punchline wasn't that he's been released. Five weeks - that was one noble sacrifice you made there. 1974: too bad the movie wasn't "Crimes & Misdemeanors", but it was probably "Sleeper".

[crosstables]

Bananas: best courtroom scene ever :-)

[jonbosco]

Bananas also has great opening credits, with music by marvin hamlisch (and great musical use of gunshots)