Jury Duty story….
Well, I did report for jury duty last week as I was supposed to. I haven’t had time to write about it until now.
I showed up at the courthouse and got assigned to a jury pool and was told to report to the courtroom at 1:30PM. Great, there I was 30+ miles from home with nearly 3 hours to waste. Not really enough time to bother with going home so I bummed around Georgetown for a while and got lunch with my massive $6 of pay I received for showing up. I did find some mud to play with the Defender in so it wasn’t a total loss.
I showed up at 1:30 and was assigned juror number 52. A good thing. They’d have to strike 40 people ahead of me before I could make the jury. By the questions the lawyers were asking it looked to be a nasty case. The defendant was charged with aggravated sexual assault on a child. The defendant was a woman and the victim her own son. Not fun. Jury selection went 2 days for which I received $12. Luckily I was not picked as I couldn’t afford the time off work.
I saw in the paper today the trial lasted until yesterday, nearly two weeks. She was sentenced to 25 years plus 10 years plus 10 years probation to run concurrently. Ouch. I’d post a link to the story online but it requires registration. Click ‘more’ to see the full story.
: Welsh Air from the album “Voice Of An Angel” by Charlotte Church
WILLIAMSON COUNTY
Mother gets 35 years in assault
A woman has been convicted of sexually assaulting her 7-year-old son.
Lynda Marie Kirby, 46, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for three counts of sexual assault, 10 years in prison for three counts of indecency with a child by touching and 10 years of probation for two counts of indecency with a child by exposure. The sentences run concurrently.
Kirby sexually abused her son several times for two to three years before the boy told a teacher about the abuse in 2001, prosecutor Mark Brunner said. Brunner said Kirby showered and slept with her son and had him touch her inappropriately.
The child, who is now 10 and lives with his father, testified during the trial. Defense lawyer Gerry Morris said the boy had been diagnosed as delusional.