Castle Shima

Amy wouldnt be an organ donor. That's because if she had a hangnail, her husband would be screaming "For God's sake, dont let her suffer! Pull the plug! Pull the plug!"
-- Robbie during a conversation at work

::: Tower View :::
State Side Of Things
Now the case in question is a civil one. If we believed that the respondent, Ronnie, would most likely offend again, then he would be forced back to a civil committment center for treatment. This would be a medium security facility where he stay until he finished his mandatory treatment.

As a jury, we were not to determine the course of treatment or how long he would stay. Only that we thought he would do it again.

So the State Attorneys brought out everyone and everything that would push that agenda. There were the police officers in Ronnie's various arrests. There was parole officer that had Ronnie sent back. The doctors that identified the pictures of the battered and beaten victims as well as defined their injuries.

In my sick sense of humour, I found two sets of witnesses the funniest ones for the State's side of the case. These were the female victims and the three psychologists brought in.

Dont get me wrong. There isnt anything funny about sexual abuse or battery, but these particular women made things a riot.

Two new women had come foreward to testify that before the assault on Sheila, Ronnie had hit them. At one point in time, he even tore the clothes off of one girl and would have ravished in his truck except that she had run into a local convienance store. Ronnie would drag her out by the hair, toss her back into the truck, and take her back home.

Neither girl brought up charges against him because as they had both put it in a similiar fashion: "Oh he is a good old boy and dat is how it is around where I am from."

When the Respondant's lawyer, Fleschmann, asked one woman how she came to testify at this case, she stated "Well, I done married Ronnie's cousin. When I mentioned the attack when we was younger, my husband insisted that I give my statement."

Then there was Shiela, who cried through most of her testimony. Granted she was the one beaten and assaulted, but with the strong Southern drawl, it was really hard to keep a straight face. Especially when she made comments like "Yeah, I wanted him to f**k me, but I didnt want him to beat me. We done it every way we could and put it in everywhere. How else could I keep him happy?"

When Ronnie was in jail, she would write and visit him. Her letters were entered as evidence by Fleschmann, stating how Sheila was totally devoted to Ronnie, that she would leave whoever she was with for him.

And in the back of mind I kept hearing Coocoo! Coocoo! I'm crazy for Coco Puffs!

Denise refused to testify at the 1998 trial as well as this one. Instead, it came out how she had received a sum of cash from Ronnie's grandmother before her statement could be taken...

And in the back of mind I kept hearing Coocoo! Coocoo! I'm crazy for Coco Puffs!

What was worse that in my strange, crazy mind, the first few thoughts when I saw the women was "Hm, she is pretty hot. I can see why he wanted to do her..."

Which is a good lead-in to the psychologists.

All three of them went into their various educations, job experiences, and fees. One was even pushing his book as the reference point for committing Ronnie back to treatment. Then there was the one that so monotone that I kept hearing Ben Stein saying "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?"

During one lunch break, a few of jury were debating about taking the doctors out back and beating them to death.

Then there were both set of attorneys jabbing at the doctors to get what they wanted to be said. Both sets were getting so out of line so many times, that the judge had to constantly rein them in. Then when he wanted to admonish them, he sent us to the jury room.

It didnt help that the doctors would debate with Ronnie's lawyers when he tried to discredit them. Then the judge would chew them out for doing it. In his words "You are here to answer the questions, not ask them!"

At one point, me and another juror had different bets going:
1) How often Fleschmann would get overturned
2) How often the State attorneys would get chewed out for asking inappropriate queestions
3) How often the doctors would get yelled at
4) How often we would be sent to the jury room so the judge could yell at everyone.

So after suffering thru a few days of the slow monotone pace, the constant bickering, and humorous drawls, the Respondant got present their case.

And things went downhill from there...

To Be Continued
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::: Out In The Yard :::
Japanese dirctor says that Hollywood is out of ideas. Well no, shite. How the else can you explain Scary Movie 4?
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::: Background Noise :::
Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me by TISM

Everyone else has had more sex than me
Does anyone else get that feeling?
Teenagers, naked, couples in threes...
Grandparents swing from the ceiling...

Geez everything about this song is addicting, even the video...

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* But I'm a creep
* I'm a weirdo
* What the hell am I doing here?
* I dont belong here
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