During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system, as defendant or victim, but usually not even the most elementary effort is made to corroborate those claims. One ADA [Associate District Attorney] told me about inheriting a murder case, after the first jury deadlocked. He checked the raps for the jurors and found that four had criminal records. None of those jurors were prosecuted. Nor was it policy to prosecute defense witnesses who were demonstrably lying--by providing false alibis, for example--because, as another ADA told me, if they win the case, they don't bother, and if they lose, "it looks like sour grapes." A cop told me about a brawl at court one day, when he saw court officers tackle a man who tried to escape from the Grand Jury. An undercover was testifying about a buy when the juror recognized him as someone he had sold to. Another cop told me about locking up a woman for buying crack, who begged for a Desk Appearance Ticket, because she had to get back to court, for jury duty--she was the forewoman on a Narcotics case, of course. The worst part about these stories is that when I told them to various ADAs, none were at all surprised; most of those I'd worked with I respected, but the institutionalized expectations were abysmal. They were too used to losing and it showed in how they played the game.
Edward ConlonStichwörter: cops irony police pathetic the-system district-attorney jurors jury-duty voir-dire
The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
Joss WhedonStichwörter: humour irony epiphany buffy-the-vampire-slayer changing-the-world
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
Patricia Highsmithsometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live
Mark LeidnerStichwörter: sincerity irony pitchforks
These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark house, trying to be quiet. Like a robbery in reverse, creeping around to leave something rather than take it.
Sarah DessenStichwörter: dark quiet irony robbery reverse midnight
And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!
Susan KayStichwörter: humor satire funny witty irony ironic comeback sharp
(About sweeping)....
What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.
Stichwörter: funny humorous irony ironic laughable
Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: humor funny irony ironic humorous-quotations
You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: humor satire funny wit humorous irony comeback witty-quotes
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: humor funny humorous irony ironic
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