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Effective or not, i love it! Plus you'll have the added onus of likely getting kicked off the jury by one of the attorneys.
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Like discussions of self defense situations, it's easy to write what we think we'd do in such a situation. Actually doing it is far different. And as Ms Brandborg found out could result in jail time.
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It's your claim that the questionnaire violates one or more constitutionally protected rights.
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To be correct and accurate, that isn't my claim. The claim was made by
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Originally Posted by psyfly
2.) I'm not sure it's legal.
3.) I'm pretty sure it's a 4th A violation to ask (from a federal court)
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At which point I extended the question-
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Originally Posted by JimDandy
As has been mentioned, answering the question is compulsory. Couldn't that, in theory, make you an Agent Of The State?
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which assumed a search of your memory of your house was similar enough to a search of your house itself. I also drew a comparison to a similar 5th Amendment/Gun Registry case with the sadly unasked question of how one would be ok, and the other not.
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Originally Posted by Frank Ettin
Not every governmental annoyance or perceived impertinent question is a violation of a constitutional right.
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Nor does that mean every perceived impertinent question it NOT a violation of a Constitutional right.
I'm going to assume you and I were posting at the same time, and so you haven't seen the Brandborg case I cited yet that found a juror's right to privacy in the 1st and 14th amendment apparently, at least when the questions aren't established as relevant to the case they're being used on. Or some such.