The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

Apparently, a 21 year old doofus insulted the judicial system in the US when he falsified retarded information on his jury duty form.

He wrote that he was on heroin and that he had killed a person:

Ratliffe filled out a questionnaire form for potential jurors and professed to having a "bad jonesin' for heroin." When asked if he had ever fired a weapon, he wrote, "Yes. I killed someone with it, of course. Right."

Ratliffe doesn't believe in the death penalty and wanted to be excused from the trial, said his attorney, Scott Weisman.

You know, if he would have just waited it out and filled out the form correctly, he probably wouldn't have even been selected in the first place because he was so young.

But, what I also think is stupid, is that the judge dismissed the kid's charges against him, and added,

"He didn't try to defend his responses, and he lied under oath and he was insubordinate," said Lynch, who ultimately removed Ratliffe from the jury pool and dismissed the charges against him. "You do not make a mockery of the process."

That if you lie to the courts and are insubordinate, you can get away with anything?

The kid got exactly what he wanted; he got out of jury duty, and all he had to pay for that was a night in a local jail.

Boo hoo.

Talk about rough justice!

Tar and feather him, that's what I say (a process that once befell those who were considered insufficiently patriotic). Sounds appropriate, don't it?

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