GRAND JURY
So here is one more good reason to not drink and drive. Not only might you wreck your car, injure yourself or kill someone else, you will bore a Grand Jury to death!!
Since each case must be presented as if it were the only case in the world, the Prosecutor must introduce evidence that the suspect was given a field sobriety test, that the officer was qualified to give it, how it was conducted and how the defendant performed. They then must give evidence that a breath test was administered and again, what were the conditions how does the test work, what are the procedures and how did the defendant do.
I am sworn to secrecy about any proceedings that have taken place in the grand Jury room, so blogging about it might call into question how seriously I took all that. But it is safe to say that after the third case, it becomes boring, after the tenth case I began to understand why the windows on the sixth floor do not open. It is not to keep people out, but to keep jurors from leaping before one more Police Officer gets op with his pen and shows how he moves it left to right in front of a suspects eyes.