Runaway Jury Page #3

- Lydia.

- So, what are we supposed to do?

Are we supposed to sit here all day?

Is that it?

- What do they want us to do?

- I'm sure we can think of something.

All rise!

Oyez, oyez, oyez, civil district court for

the Parish of Orleans is now in session.

The Honorable

Frederick Buford Harkin presiding.

God save this state

and this honorable court.

Thank you, bailiff.

You may take your seats.

This suit is brought

by the plaintiff Celeste Wood...

Over your left shoulder.

Rankin Fitch, 2:
00.

Dark suit. You've heard the myth.

- Now meet the man.

- I'm quaking in my Florsheims.

...used to kill Jacob Wood.

Celeste Wood claims

that Vicksburg Firearms is liable

for her husband's wrongful death

and seeks special damages

for loss of Mr. Wood's future earnings,

as well as general damages,

including pain and suffering.

Plaintiff has exercised

her right to a jury trial.

Ladies and gentlemen,

we are now ready to begin the voir dire.

Miss Coleman.

- Mrs.

- Mrs. Coleman. Excuse me.

I see from your questionnaire

that you have no particular feeling

about guns one way or another.

- Briefcase on the jury.

- Would you say that's correct?

Yes, sir, that's correct.

I don't feel one way

or another about guns,

but I sure hate to see

people get hurt, though.

I understand.

Do you or your husband own a gun?

We do not.

Ever fired a gun for sport

or in self-defense?

Uh, look at the shoulder shrug.

Now, she's evaluating

the person asking the question

before she ever answers.

I mean, she's telling Rohr

exactly what he wants to hear.

- So you think she's lying?

- Not necessarily.

- But she knows how to.

- Rikki Coleman, 36 years of age.

Her husband's a Baptist minister.

She's a card-carrying member of the

Sierra Club and a registered Democrat.

Ah, I hate Baptists almost as much as

I hate Democrats. What else you got?

- She had an abortion two years ago.

- And, and, and?

And the guy holding her hand

at the clinic, not the Baptist minister.

Ooh!

Tone of voice, body language.

She's got an open mind.

I like her. She's gonna be fair

and sympathetic to Ms. Wood.

Mr. Rohr, do you wish to

exercise challenge for cause?

No, Your Honor. We accept this juror.

- Mr. Cable?

- Take her. Take her.

- No objections here, Your Honor.

- Enter Mrs. Coleman as a juror.

I'm co-manager of Circle Foods.

It's a local grocery chain.

I've been living here about 14 years.

Circle Foods.

Take him, Mr. Cable. Take him.

- We accept this juror, Your Honor.

- Mr. Rohr?

- No objections, Your Honor.

- Thank you.

You may enter Mr. Shaver

as a juror. Next?

Prison. Prison for those people

who break the law.

Your Honor, we'll accept this juror.

- She looks good.

- No objection, Your Honor.

Enter Miss Hullic as a juror.

It's ridiculous. They're just

floodin' the community with...

- No, no, no.

- Preemptory challenge, Your Honor.

Go ahead, sir. What are your grounds?

- We accept this juror.

- Mr. Rohr?

- No objection.

- We accept this juror.

Do you have a gun in your home?

- I'm thinking about getting one.

- Thank you, Mr. Black.

- A Mossberg Pump.

- I like him! Yes!

Thank you, Mr. Cable.

- Your Honor, we accept this juror.

- No objection.

...Frank Herrera as a juror.

- I'm an auto mechanic.

- What about gun control?

Same way I feel about birth control, man.

- It doesn't work.

- We accept this juror.

- Please enter Eddie Weese as a juror.

- Yes. Yes, definitely yes.

- Rohr?

- No challenge.

No, we accept this juror,

Your Honor.

They call me Millie.

I'm an ironwork sculptress.

- Accepted.

- Go ahead and take her.

...Deshazo as a juror.

- We accept.

... Ms. Deets as a juror.

- We accept this juror.

- Having an AK-47 overstates the case.

- I want her. Yes, I want her.

- No objection, Your Honor.

...Vanessa Lembeck as a juror.

- Mr. Cable?

- No challenge.

- No, let's challenge.

Preemptory challenge, Your

Honor.

Nine-millimeter.

It was more of a man's kind of gun.

...Jerry Fernandez as a juror.

- We talked about this.

- I like him a lot. We know about her...

- I don't carry a gun.

Your Honor, we accept...

- Let's not do down this road.

- Thank you, Mr. Rohr.

Well, thank you all

for being here. Thank you.

- Mr. Docken?

- Yes, sir.

- How do you do?

- Fine, thank you.

How do you feel about being a juror in

this trial? Do you feel you could be fair...

Look at the way he's hunched over

and his fingers are interlaced.

I mean, he's trying too hard

not to be too obvious.

Yeah, but he's definitely

on our side of the fence.

It's a veneer. He's campaigning.

He wants on. Bounce him, Cable.

- Go ahead and bounce him.

- We're almost out of challenges.

I don't care! Bounce him!

Bounce him, Cable! Bounce him!

Preemptory challenge, Your Honor.

- Hold on. Hear me out.

- Thank you, Mr. Docken.

- You're excused.

- No, I wanna be heard!

- Mr. Docken, you may be excused.

- I wanna be heard!

Bailiff!

- I wanna be heard!

- Get that man out of the courtroom.

This is the blood of innocent children

gunned down by greedy corporations!

Get this self-righteous lunkhead

outta here!

- You son of a b*tch!

- Help him! Help him!

Come on! Help this man!

Help this man! Get him out of here!

- Let me go!

- It's not a show in here.

- How does it feel?

- Get him outta here!

Our nation's trying to kill itself,

and you wanna give it

the weapons to do it!

You son of a b*tch! Let me go!

Let me go! Let me go! Greedy bastards!

I guess that's lunch.

Somebody add "class clown"

to Mr. Easter's ever-expanding resum

Court's adjourned. Voir dire

will resume tomorrow at 9:00am.

Attorneys, both of you,

see me in my chambers right now.

Good call.

There are some things,

however, that seem to live eternal.

That's a tendency to

always come back, asking for more.

A total of 12 million more.

Now, each of our gun companies

has already ponied up $4 million

into this Sportsman's Legacy Fund.

Now, that may not seem like a hell of a lot

of money where you come from,

but we think $20 million

ought to be enough to secure

a jury in the People's Republic

of Berkeley, California, let alone here.

- How about 30,000?

- 30,000? What are you talking about?

It's an interesting amount to reflect on.

The number of gun deaths every year.

Or the number of men, women

and children who are disabled

by your gentlemen's products

last year alone:
100,000.

Or we could focus... on the number one.

Because one is all they want.

One win, one precedent.

Because once they get that, they're

gonna be traveling around this country,

filing civil actions and siphoning away

at that $2 billion that you gentlemen sell

in firearms and ammo every fiscal year.

$2 billion. Whoo!

Where I come from, that's a lot of money.

What I'm asking for is a pittance

compared to what

a negative verdict is gonna cost you.

Our share price is down 25%

just on word of this trial.

I'm down almost 30.

I'll kick in an extra 1.5, but no.

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