Potential juror: Shkreli "kind of looks like a dick."

[Tanuki]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/he-kind-of-looks-like-a-dick-potential-jurors-take-an-immediate-dislike-to-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli/

"....More than 120 potential jurors were dismissed Monday from the federal court trial in Brooklyn, where Shkreli faces eight counts of securities and wire fraud related to his two hedge funds and the drug company Retrophin, reported the New York Times.
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“I think he’s a very evil man,” said another woman. “I don’t think I can be fair. My opinion is pretty well formed. I wouldn’t want to serve on this jury.

But even jurors who had never heard of Shkreli seemed to hate him on sight.
“I looked right at him, and in my head, I said, ‘That’s a snake’ — not knowing who he was,” said one woman.
.......

Another man just didn’t like the looks of him.
“He kind of looks like a dick,” the man said."....

[George II]

1. That man should be the foreman.

[rpannier]

2. Terrible for me to say

Put me on that jury and he's guilty
Which is why I should not serve on his jury
I can be impartial about 99% of people on trial
Him, I cannot

[Ilsa]

17. I'm a nurse. We are typically selected because of

our objectivity in dealing with all kinds of patients. I'm afraid I'd be napping with my eyes open during the trial ( ) and voting Guilty the moment the jury deliberation room door is shut.

[Warpy]

35. Same here and I've been on a jury

They put Shkreli on the stand, he's toast. They allow the jurors a view of him sitting there smirking all through the trial, he's toast. And that's with 12 of us on the jury.

Some people project who and what they are and my best advice to them is to give up on grifting because they're going to get caught and no juror is going to give them a sympathy vote. Shkreli is one of those. He suffers from having what Germans call a backpfeifengesicht, a face in need of a slap.

I'd upgrade that to a punch, personally.

[Dave Starsky]

38. "Backpfeifengesicht."

I'm writing that one down.

Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Sean Hannity... so many in that party of goblins that fit this exceptionally apt description.

[Warpy]

41. Naw, most of those bozos don't stand out until they open their mouths

and put their stupidity on display. Shkreli can just stand in a corner silently and people will want to punch him.

That's the difference.

[lastlib]

44. the vast majority of them need a good roundhouse kick to the jaw--

one that'd make Billy Jack jealous!

[madokie]

3. 69 years old

and no felonies or any reason for but I've never been asked to be on a jury, not once in my lifetime.
Got busted for pot seeds back soon after returning from the war is my only sin

Yes I said POT seeds. I'd rolled those seeds down a shoe box lid or an album cover looking for a smidgen of reefer so many time I swear there was NO pot left in those seeds, none, nada zilch but got a 1 year deferred sentence anyway. Bastards all of them

Pot seeds were not illegal to possess at the time best I remember.

[Glorfindel]

9. You're very lucky, madokie...I have received a jury summons at least every other year since I was 18

I have served on grand juries, civil juries, criminal juries, and once even a coroner's jury. I got a jury summons while I was in Vietnam, but they wouldn't let me come home to do my civic duty. Serving on juries is tedious, boring, and inconvenient. Trust me, you haven't missed a thing.

[Laffy Kat]

32. Me too, OMG.

So many jury services and I most always get picked. In February of this year I served on a two-day trial and they called me again for May. I got out of it since they have this "one jury, one day" thing, but you better believe I'll get called again next year. Meanwhile, I know so many people who never get called. I don't get it.

[tblue37]

20. Seven years in a row during the late 1980s-early 1990s I was called for jury duty, and every time

I had to ask to be excused because I am *severely* hearing impaired and I don't sign, and back then I had not managed yet to save enough money to purchase hearing aids. But they kept calling me every darned year and then excusing me after I sent in my request to be excused.

Finally I got a letter from them saying I was excused long term, but that the exemption could change in the future if they decided to call me again.

It was a real PITA to have to write up a request every year to be excused. Some people NEVER get called at all, but some people get called over and over and over again.

One time I actually had to go to the courthouse and go through jury selection. I had to have the woman next to me tell me what questions the lawyers were asking us. Sometimes she had to write the question out, because even with her that close, and even with reading her lips, I still couldn't understand a lot of what she said.

I finally was dismissed when I asked a question that the prosecutor did not like. They were trying a teenaged defendant for a Kwik Shop robbery. The prosecutor asked whether we would be in any way influenced by the fact that the kid was young. I asked how young he was, and that question made me persona non grata to the prosecutor, who peremptorily dismissed me from the jury pool. Ironically enough, the kid's age would not have influenced me if the evidence pointed to guilt. I was actually just curious.

Still, the fact that I couldn''t even understand most of what was being said in the courtroom should have been sufficient to get me out of there--and yet it wasn't.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

59. I once served on a jury.

The defendant was charged with leaving the scene of an accident. We agreed that the man had caused the accident, that he was driving in an unsafe manner and was a menace on the public roads. However, we also agreed that he had not left the scene of the accident. He had merely gone on about a hundred yards to a place where his car would not be blocking traffic.

[Kablooie]

4. I've always said he has one of the most punchable faces ever.

[Saviolo]

5. Right up there with Ted Cruz

Except looking at Cruz, I feel like my hand would just land in a soft mass of melting skin. *shudder*

They both fill me with revulsion.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Shkreli makes Ted Cruz look like a lovable teddy bear.

And that's saying something. That's how BAD Shkreli is. I actually think he might be more of a dick than Trump. It's definitely a toss up.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

57. Pence is another face--makes me long for a wrecking ball.

[smirkymonkey]

58. Oooo! Definitely a face in need of a fist.

What a sickening bunch of men they are! How do people grow up to be so evil and hateful?

[Whiskeytide]

6. His facial expressions - the

... forced, fake smile with a smug, condescending air just beneath it - do make him look like a dick. They are the same expressions Trump uses. Must be a sociopath thing.

[tblue37]

21. "Smug," "sneer,"and "smirk" are the words his visage automatically call to mind. nt

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

60. A lot of the time, I can't tell if Trump is smiling or smirking n/t

[Whiskeytide]

61. I know what you mean...

... I don't think he knows he difference himself.

[TNNurse]

7. I have served on a couple of juries.

Helped convict someone of "felony stupidity", that was not actually the decision. He rented a big truck for a friend who did not have a credit card, he signed the contract. Friend left big truck on side of road with damaged tires and body. He did not think he was responsible, therefore felony stupidity due to value of the truck.

Always thought I would sincerely say that I would never vote for the death penalty, which I would not. That could disqualify you from a jury.


This guy could almost make me say "He deserves the death penalty".

[Warpy]

36. My dislike is particularly nasty and visceral

because he reminds me of every preppie putz who got into the Ivy League on daddy's coattails (and hefty donation) who was looking for ways to cheat his way through so he could graduate and grift his way through big business, again with a hefty assist from daddy's reputation.

[IronLionZion]

8. A lot of people would have heard about his story by now

it would be hard to find people who don't have an opinion about him. Which is what a lot of celebrities' lawyers use to dismiss jurors.

His face does look very punchable. That should be part of any settlement offered: a punch to his smug mug from families of his victims

[dhill926]

11. kind of?

[PatrickforO]

12. Shkreli not only looks like an evil dick, he

IS

an evil dick!


This guy is in fact the face of corporate greed in America.

[BigmanPigman]

19. And that smug little smirk really makes me want to deck him!

And I am normally non-violent.

[HuskyOffset]

13. The most positive thing I can say

about Martin Shkreli is . . . he's not quite as bad as Adolf Hitler. Now, that being said, I think the only reason he's not as bad as Hitler is because he doesn't have the political power required to do what Hitler did.

[Bob Loblaw]

28. He exhales carbon dioxide

and that's beneficial to plants.

[HuskyOffset]

37. Bob Loblaw's

law blog lobs legal bombs . . . well done sir, well done. You are one helluva silver lining finder, I bow to you and stand before you corrected.

[Dave Starsky]

39. I think even plants hold their breath...

Whenever he's around.

[LiberalFighter]

52. He would be just as bad as Hitler.

He would had been in charge of throwing the lever to discharge the gas so he could rip out the gold teeth and take all of their jewelry.

[paleotn]

14. Prototypical, modern Republican

[stevenleser]

15. Everyone deserves a fair trial by an impartial jury of their peers. That being said...

Shkreli did this to himself. And if he gets a severe punishment, few will have deserved it so richly.

[csziggy]

22. So find a dozen psychopaths to sit on a jury

Because they would be his peers.

[Bob Loblaw]

25. So find a dozen republicans to sit on a jury

There, I fixed it for you.

[csziggy]

26. Synonyms - as in a rose by any other name

But stinkier.

[Ray Bruns]

16. I think the conversation went something like this:

Lawyer for Shkreli, "Your honor, we would like to strike this juror."
Judge, "On what grounds?"
Lawyer for Shkreli,, "He his prejudicial against my client."
Judge, "How do you know this?"
Lawyer for Shkreli, "He stated my client looks like a "dick"."
Judge," That is not an opinion, it is a statement of fact."

[LOL Lib]

31. You sir...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. Juror: "We would like to strike the defendant."

Judge: "Go for it. He looks like kind of a dick."

[panader0]

18. The government should make pharmaceuticals.

The price of life saving drugs is obscene.

[Sugar Smack]

23. He has "weasel resting face".

He could be thinking about a sandwich & look guilty.

[JHan]

27. maybe but weasels are still cuter :P

[MadDAsHell]

24. Sounds like it's setting up for him to be able to claim a discriminatory jury...

Wasn't there some precedent set recently where if you can prove even one juror had demonstrated discriminatory behavior in their lives, you can get the entire verdict thrown out?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. You just want to slap him on sight.

The Germans have the best word: Backpfeifengesicht - a face in need of a fist.

[Sneederbunk]

30. Has a punchable face just like Ted Cruz.

[sheshe2]

33. Their is a poster on Discussionist by that name.

Equally nasty. Hmmm. I wonder if that is them posting.

[mercuryblues]

40. sounds like he needs

Bull

Dr Jason Bull, trial consultant.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/bull/

[Beacool]

43. Bull wouldn't take his case.

He has a sense of decency.

[Beacool]

42. That's because he IS a dick.

He's a man with no moral scruples.

[lastlib]

45. Nah, he's just foreskin--

not big enough to be a full dick.............

[Beacool]

49. LOL!!!

[Cha]

46. This thread needs a pic..

[Tanuki]

47. Hahaha... thanks, Cha.... why, he wouldn't harm a fly!

https://m.

[pokerfan]

53. Courtroom sketch artist has him down cold

[Cha]

54. The artist is good.. Mahalo, pokerfan

[OnlinePoker]

48. If it looks like a dick and acts like a dick, it's probably a dick. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

50. Kind of?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

51. A lawyer friend once had a client who had a really good case -

it was a personal injury case where the other driver was clearly at fault, and the client had some genuine, though not life-threatening, injuries. But she was so unlikeable, whiney and obnoxious that my friend knew that if he let a jury see her she'd either lose altogether, or at very best get a verdict much too small to compensate her for her actual damages. So he had to talk her into settling the case, which was tricky because he couldn't really tell her she shouldn't go to trial (which she wanted to do) because the jury would hate her. He did manage somehow, and got a fair settlement - though the cranky, whiney client thought it wasn't enough; what she did want was both unreasonable and impossible.

It's hard to be a lawyer for a horrible client. Everyone is entitled to fair representation but it's not easy to do it.

[Vinca]

55. One juror said his only conflict of interest would be which prison to send Shkreli to.

[Princess Turandot]

56. The best thing about that line...

is that the juror said that directly to the judge, in response to a question from her. (She questioned numerous potential jurors in a sidebar with only the various attorneys present, so the replies wouldn't bias the other jurors.)

She apparently did not reprimand him for vulgar language. Brooklyn rules! (Perhaps).