Gaming > Justice

[Heretic Machine]

Gamespot (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152534.html) reports:

Apparently the testimony of Guardian Angels-founder and radio host Curtis Silwa in the trial of John "Junior" Gotti, the man accused of devising a 1992 attempt on Silwa's life, just wasn't interesting enough for Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin.

According to the New York Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/06-04-2006/news/gossip/story/423597p-357382c.html), Silwa told the paper he spotted the judge playing a game of Solitaire while he was giving testimony at Gotti's trial last year. The article makes no mention of any other witnesses having seen the judge playing games, and Scheindlin herself didn't return the papers requests for comment.
Who knew the law was on our side all along?

[Klade]

Solitare is actually better then what most judges do while on the stand. Quite a few of them will flat out fall asleep up there. The trick is to wake them up without seeming to be rude.

[Hydroeric]

Solitare is actually better then what most judges do while on the stand. Quite a few of them will flat out fall asleep up there. The trick is to wake them up without seeming to be rude.

Perhaps if you offered assistance, such as:

"You got the seven of diamonds there, drag that to your eight of clubs."

Just add "Your Honor" at the end, what are they going to do come back with "I got a strategy leave me alone!".

[Oxonian]

You would be surprised at how boring even the most salacious, blood-soaked tale can become when the full stultifying force of American criminal justice is directed at it.

Try listening to a witness spend 45 minutes describing the exact position and size of each of the trees on a street. It can move grown men to tears.

[Heretic Machine]

You would be surprised at how boring even the most salacious, blood-soaked tale can become when the full stultifying force of American criminal justice is directed at it.

Try listening to a witness spend 45 minutes describing the exact position and size of each of the trees on a street. It can move grown men to tears.

Yup... it isn't exactly The Practice, or Law & Order. Occassionally I take a look at live coverage of a trial on Court TV, and I am amazed by the things they put emphasis on.

[SexualChoc]

It's because of Solataire that I shot all those people in the face. That's the true black sheep in gaming.

[rainbowblack]

not too surprising....who here among us does not play solitare on a slow work day? though i admit had the judge been playing a GBA or PSP i would be laughing about that for sure

[B_Money]

not too surprising....who here among us does not play solitare on a slow work day? though i admit had the judge been playing a GBA or PSP i would be laughing about that for sure

I prefer freecell. Solitare is so over.

[captainstrombosis]

Like others, I don't see the big deal. I would rather be drafted and sent to Iraq with nothing but my underwear and a towel than have to work in a court room.