LOL, you sure got that right about community property. Very clever, you were able to educate the DA on Church Doctrine and get off jury duty in one stroke.
You misunderstand, I signed the indictment, the written accusation of the crime. It was my duty the foreman of the Grand Jury that sent him to trial for embezzlement. I spent one year as foreman of the San Joaquin County Criminal Grand Jury and signed numerous indictments. During that year, I sat in the Judges bench, with a gavel, in a courtroom as DAs brought cases before 27 citizens they didn't want to go to Preliminary Hearings.