Lawyer Reacting to 'The Law You Won't Be Told.'

#personalinjurylawyer #jurynullification #juryduty

"The Law You Won't Be Told" is a famous video about jury nullification. In today's video, I am reacting to said video....GO TO JURY DUTY PEOPLE IT IS IMPORTANT.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the personal video blog of personal injury lawyer Tommy John Kherkher.

Link to My Other Social Media Channels:

Biography:

Personal Injury Attorney Tommy John Kherkher
Managing Partner of The Kherkher Law Firm PLLC | Attorney at Kherkher Garcia LLP
Principal office is in Houston, Texas. Licensed in Texas(see below).

Primarily focused on representing individuals who have suffered catastrophic and high-damage personal injuries.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fair Use: All clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

I do not own the music or unoriginal underlying graphics in this video.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DISCLAIMER:

This content is the property of Attorney Tom, LLC. Anything stated on ANY form of media, either expressly or implied, is not legal advice, nor can Attorney Tom, LLC, Attorney Tommy John Kherkher, Kherkher Law Firm, PPLC, or Kherkher Garcia LLP give you legal advice. Unless otherwise stated in the specific video referenced, The Kherkher Law Firm, PLLC | Kherkher Garcia, LLP is not advertising the services and products it offers. This content, unless otherwise disclaimed, was not prepared to secure paid professional employment.

Nothing here should be construed to form an attorney-client relationship. Nor is there intent to form a lawyer-client relationship when interacting with others on the internet and in social media outlets. Past performance talked about in any context is no guarantee of future results.

[sucoh]

AttorneyTom: “I should steal that”
Judge: “ *so what did you mean by that* “

[piratatazmania]

"I don't make up the facts, I simply arrange them in the most convenient way "

[emkultra]

your "Karen does jury duty" is the best argument for getting people into jury duty

[PhantomSavage]

Truth. The very first time I was ever, ever called for Jury Duty just so happened to be a drive-by shooting case in a residential neighborhood that resulted in the death of a minor from stray bullet fire. The prosecution was firmly seeking the death penalty, and I was in a room with 400 strangers that had also been called to Jury Duty to fill-in a comprehensive questionnaire to determine my eligibility as a juror.

No one ever wants to do Jury Duty, but if you do, you always hope its for something like a traffic violation or a civil dispute... I was not too pleased my first time ever was a capitol murder offense. This was even more scary to me because my dad had been a Juror on a major murder trial before, and he warned me that if I were to be picked for a case this big, I would also probably be sequestered for the duration of the trial as he had been.

Fortunately, I had good reason at the time to be disqualified for Jury selection. At that time, I had no faith in the justice system whatsoever (Still kind of don't) because I had a brother who was a former CFO that was now serving 4 years in prison for a white collar wire fraud crime he didn't commit because he was facing 20 years in prison if he didn't take the prosecutions plea deal.

Plea deals send more innocent men to prison than the Spanish inquisition.

[billtwok]

The big problem with "jury duty is important" is that the legislatures do not treat it as important. First of all, >10% of Americans would be fired just for serving jury duty (even though it is illegal). Also if you require someone to be there you need to pay them at least minimum wage (civic duty or not these are people still need to eat). When the government starts treating jury duty as "important" the citizens might also.

[juniordc]

“If you don’t do Jury Duty, Karen will.” —Attorney Tom

This is now officially my argument to get my friends and acquaintances to stop trying to get out of Jury Duty.

[arichaast]

12 Karen's in jury duty oh hell fucking no

[shawnmyers]

Still need Tom to discuss the legality of the ATF refusing to tell someone whether or not something was legal.

[dreamwolf]

Friend of mine had a jury made up of people who didnt want to be there.

He was thankfully able to get a retrial after several members of the jury admitted they just voted guilty because they hadnt been paying attention, and 'arent getting paid to care'.

It was some sketchy ass shit, and his court appointed lawyer was worthless the whole time.

I remember sitting in the front row, waiting to be called as a character witness, and his court appointed attorney was playing candy crush while the prosecution gave statements, and questioned another witness.

[zappawench]

I got called for jury duty on the same day that I had an appointment with a psychiatrist due to depression. I sent the letter showing the appointment to the Court to ask to come on another day. I got a letter back saying I was permanently excused from jury duty.

[Grahf]

My last jury duty that I went to was a really frustrating experience. It showed me that language comprehension has gone downhill.

We first get in, DUI case. The judge asks "How many of you all would want to hear what this man has to say?", referring to the defendant. I raised my hand, because if he said something, I would want to hear what it was he had to say. I took the question as just that and nothing else. The judge must have thought the question SOUNDED like it was phrased well *in his head.* What he was ACTUALLY getting at was how many of us feel the defendant SHOULD testify. The county prosecutor and defense attorney were noting who raised their hands for this question.

Later on, the defense attorney asked if we thought the defendant SHOULD BE COMPELLED to testify, and I didn't raise my hand.

During individual questioning, she tried to tell me that I contradicted myself, and I had to EXPLAIN TO HER that what the judge SAID and what he MEANT were two completely different things.

[thatdarkboi]

Finally found a YouTube lawyer to react to this video

[PJthederpygecko]

I would go to jury duty for 2 reasons: 1 it sounds kind of interesting. 2 it might be Tom's case, who knows

[jakecoulson]

“Would you put your life in the hands of 12 people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty?”

[beauthestdane]

The way juries work needs to change if they want people to be OK with serving. People need to be fairly compensated for their time, there are a lot of people who just can't afford to take that time basically unpaid.

[reaper_panda]

Oh look a new favorite content creator reviewing an old favorite content creator

[ZA-dipb]

Tom uploading is like getting a stimulus check for your brain

[fractal]

My nana was on jury duty once for a guy who sold meth or something to kids. And half way through one of the guys in the jury said that he believes that only god can choose if someone is guilty or not. They had to postpone the whole case and get a new jury.

(Edit)
I asked my mom about it and it turns out that He ruined a big drug bust.

[romrimland]

I stumbled across the concept quite naturally during a jury selection process wherein I was a potential juror. When the judge asked us If there was anyone present who might might have a problem agreeing with the final decision if supported by law. I asked, what if I don't agree with said law? He then asked me " Do you hold any convictions which might supersede the law?" I replied, of course, doesn't everybody? I was summarily excused from jury duty.

[Corwin]

I'd spent much of my life excited about the idea that some day I might be called to serve on a jury because I saw that as downright central to the form of freedom that we've established in our culture. That said, when I was given a notice that I was being summoned to the first step of the jury selection process, I got several letters about it and every last one of them repeated multiple times that if I did anything to try to dodge them, they'd put me in prison. After a couple of those letters, I was so done with being threatened and pushed around that I wound up pretty happy not to get selected. Constantly restating their willingness to punish me despite the fact that I was initially excited to do my bit is way more bad to me personally than the concept of a jury trial is good. Now I did qualify that with "personally" rather than objectively, but with the way they write those letters, it was just stressful to even think about it, rather than feeling like the privilege it technically is.