Re: IBM bathroom patent symbolic of US patent ills

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:

> I've been called twice.  The first time I went in privately hoping that
> the evidence would be lacking so we could send the defendants home.  The
> evidence turned out to be overwhelming.  Guilty as charged.
>
> The second time I listened to state's witnesses who were obviously lying
> (claiming things that were physically impossible, such as "He threw a
> bottle which broke my rear window and I found the bottle on the
> windowsill").

Or like "opening a security business" in CT the very same year you got
convicted of a felony offense in Florida and sentenced to five years
probation??

> I figured we'd set this guy free in a heartbeat.

I figure you're lying through your tooth.


> We broke for lunch and when we came back the judge informed us the
> defendant had accepted a plea bargain.  I told the judge what I thought
> of the evidence.

Oh really?  When would you have had *this* opportunity?  Before or after
the judge dismissed the jury?


> Several other jurors agreed.

OK...  Obviously "after".  How many laws have you broken since?


> I never found out what
> happened to the guy at sentencing.  They probably sent him to prison
> anyway.

You didn't read the paper??  Listen to the news??  Here you are serving
on a jury and you're not the least bit interested in the outcome?
*This* I find hard to believe too.  Mind you, I find most of what you
spew hard to believe.


>
> If asked again I'd serve again, but not for a civil matter.

I doubt you'd ever served on a jury...  civil or otherwise.  You have NO
CLUE do you?


> The strange
> thing is, I was accepted by the state and the defense in both cases even
> though I had an assault conviction many years ago and even though
> several judges in the area were business clients of mine.  Go figure.


Yeah...  Lets.