Posted on 10/20/2013 11:26:21 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
New mom faces ARREST because she took son she's breastfeeding to jury duty when there was no-one else to care for him.
A Missouri woman is to face court this week for bringing her new born child to the courthouse for jury duty because she was breastfeeding. Laura Trickle, of Lee’s Summit, delivered her daughter Axel in March and was breastfeeding when she was called for jury duty in August. She asked to be exempt from appearing, as she was breastfeeding, but received notice that she must report to court to fullfill her civic obligation and serve jury duty, according to the Kansas City Star.
Trickle was told to either arrange for child care or bring somebody with her who could care for the child during jury selection. On September 3, she appeared for jury duty with her child, but according to the ensuing court order, she ‘willfully and contemptuously appeared for jury service with her child and no one to care for the child’. Trickle will now face Jackson County Presiding Judge Marco Roldan on Thursday at a hearing at the Jackson County Courthouse downtown. Those who skip jury duty can be found in contempt of court and ordered to pay a fine of up to $500 and maybe even be arrested. The mother insists she is not a criminal, saying ‘I’ve never even had a speeding ticket’.
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I sat for jury duty in Hudson county NJ once up on a time.
I learned a critically important life altering lesson there.
It was possible to get SIX continuous HOURS of Jerry Springer in 2 different languages.
Who knew?
I embroidered the whole time we waited. Guess I’d have to read a book now. Bummer.
Not sure what I’d do with my kids if I were called either. And I only have the three.
That was a joke, because it’s a Ford van, you see. As the Venture Crew leader was driving the van into the church parking lot, he ran over a nail. By the time I got to it after Mass, one of the tires was nearly flat. Fortunately, there’s a Bridgestone tire shop nearby, open on Sunday, and we got the tire repaired quickly.
Now I can go to Walmart with way too many children again. I was terribly anxious all weekend without the van!
For shame. Any new breastfeeding mom needs to be automatically exempted.
Texas bump
Any new Mom needs to be exempted, breastfeeding or not. It’s hard to imagine how difficult those first months are.
And I’ll repeat. ‘Perfectly legitimate’ alternatives usually cost money.
Formula is very expensive compared to breast feeding.
Are YOU going to cut a check to her for the difference? Would you be ‘OK’ with the taxpayer cutting her that check to compensate her?
Which ignores another critical issue. Who takes care of the baby. It won’t exactly, at 5m, prepare that formula and feed itself.
I’m sure I’ll be called a ‘childcare fanatic’ because I refuse to turn my 5m old over to ‘just anyone’ as a ‘perfectly legitimate’ alternative.
You mean the race car driver from the 70's?
I was called three times in San Antonio. I had a job then, and when I had the children (Anoreth and Bill were born there) I had a full-time babysitter. The jury room at the Bexar County courthouse didn’t have a television, fortunately. The first two times I was able to sew, but the last time, I read all the newspapers in Spanish (so it would take longer) and then discussed local politics in Spanish, so it would be more interesting!
I was on one jury - the desperate case of a man who hadn’t paid the rent on his Xerox machine. The judge gave a directed judgment for the office-machines-rental company, and told the jury he was sorry they’d wasted our time.
I haven’t been summoned for jury duty in all the years I’ve been a SAHM, fortunately. I’m sure I’d be thrown off for my political opinions, like I was when I was on the panel for a big murder trial in S.A. I told the attorneys that I knew they didn’t want an impartial jury: they each wanted jurors who were on their side. The judge told me it was fun having me in his courtroom, and I could tell the clerk I was “dismissed for cause.”
I sat on a malpractice case. The plaintiff showed up to the ER in labor. Subsequently had a child with many problems. Blood tests run when they admitted her showed she was drunk and had metabolites of both pot and cocaine in her system. She had had NO prenatal care. At all. Had taken NO prenatal vitamins. At all. The first time an MD saw her for ‘pregnancy’ she was in labor. Preterm labor as a matter of fact.
So, of course, she sued the poor OB who was on call that night for her child’s problems.
We were ALL angry that she’d wasted our time and the defendant’s malpractice company’s money with the trial.
Duh.
What was she doing there?
she took son she’s breastfeeding to jury duty
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Gigadee.
Especially, anyone who's had to pay an OB/Gyn was angry, because this kind of crap is why they cost so much.
Yup.
The child subsequently died and they managed to get the malpractice suit in just under the statute of limitations.
The child she was so traumatized about? She abandoned it to the paternal grandparents so she could travel the world. Her passport was part of discovery. She saw the kid Mmmmmaybe once a year after it was born. One of the defendant lawyers questioned about sharing the lawsuit monies, if any, with the paternal grandparents. Her reply was along the lines of ‘why, they already got to enjoy the baby!’. The baby was on all sorts of equipment 24hrs a day, had numerous medical procedures and required continous care and monitoring. Yeah, enjoyed...
OH, and this was before any sort of tort reform, she wanted TEN MILLION for her emotional distress.
Jackson County, Missouri
Excuses from Jury Service:
All citizens are obligated to take part in seeing that justice is done. Therefore, only legal excuses provided by law should be presented. In general these include:
Illness, or presence required at home
Personal hardship
Emergency
Served on jury duty (on actual trial of a case) in this court in last two (2) years
Over the age of 65 years and you desire to claim this personal exemption
http://www.co.jackson.ms.us/officials/circuit-clerk/jury-duty.php
She should fall under the personal hardship exemption.
IIRC, last time I was called, in Texas, the exemption was kids under 12 years old because that’s the state regs on leaving kids home alone.
Oh, for heaven’s sake. Sounds a bit like my sister-in-law, except she just ditched the kids with their father’s parents. If she could have claimed millions in emotional distress for SOMETHING, she would have.
Government has grossly abused its power. It is using its power to detain people who have not committed a crime. Willfully impotent in the fight against true crime, it has turned against innocent, law-abiding citizens because they will not fight back.
And that’s the kicker.
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Yep the Judgement of the Court can be a kicker for sure. She must not have proved to the
Court’s Judgement that it would be an ‘extreme hardship’ for her to find a sitter. Who knows.
On permanent retainer.
Just wish there had been a worthy October thread for us.
*sigh*
I’m a stay at home mom with young children. We moved a few years ago into a new state. I haven’t met any friends since moving and don’t know a soul besides my two neighbors, of whom I would never let me kids go over there. So how would someone like me just magically find a “sitter”? Seriously, just finding some random stranger to watch over my child is not something I would do.
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