Voir Dire Limerick #2

5/18/2017

By popular request (click here for the backstory), and for dVerse's Open Link Night #196, I present....

Voir Dire Limerick #2!

The prosecutor was in a huge hurry,
so he paid no attention to selection of jury.
From that mistake it transpired
he lost and was fired
and now he's got reasons to worry.

11 Comments

Sabio

5/18/2017 03:36:59 pm

Funny -- but who can feel sorry for a lawyer -- seriously?

Rachel Rosenberg

5/18/2017 03:48:17 pm

Well, I'm not feeling sorry for myself today, but there are a lot of great lawyers who do some really tough, thankless work for almost no pay. I know a lot of people think, "rich guy in a suit in an office in a high rise" when they hear "lawyer," but the truth these days is much more accurately reflected by the opposite, for the vast majority of lawyers.

Thotpurge link

5/18/2017 05:10:59 pm

Lovely to see a series of limericks about a serious topic! Nicely done.

Glenn Buttkus link

5/18/2017 05:18:39 pm

There was a young poet named Rachel,
who saved poems in a silk satchel--
whose name sounded Jewish,
but she was never boorish,
for her resolve was pure glacial.

Rachel Rosenberg

5/18/2017 08:39:55 pm

Thank you, Glenn! I always know I'm doing well when I'm inspiring response poems! :D

Bjorn Rudberg

5/18/2017 08:57:40 pm

A hard time, but I guess in a trial one party is gonna loose.

Jane Dougherty

5/19/2017 06:23:03 am

I admire anyone who can write a good limerick—and about lawyers too! Not the funniest of professions :)

Sascha Darlington

5/19/2017 10:35:41 am

If it were a big enough case to be fired over, I'm surprised he was in such a hurry. A good, unexpected limerick.

Frank Hubeny link

5/19/2017 05:47:32 pm

Nice continuation of the voir dire limericks. I guess it is important to get the right jurors.

Walter Marks link

5/19/2017 05:54:21 pm

That's funny, it reminds me of a time my boss, (a JP), impaneled an impromptu jury for an angry truck driver, who demanded a trial by jury right now. Well, the Judge sent the bailiff to the corner store at lunch time and shortly there were 12 very angry diners to decide his mistake. The jury threw the book at him, big mistake. Never separate a dozen working people from their lunch

Jericho link

5/19/2017 08:58:29 pm

I wonder if he's worried because he's lost his job, or because his client is now coming after him.

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