Because Capital Punishment is Hilarious

I used to show up when I was summoned for jury duty.  That was before I began to realize just how corrupt and unjust, and frankly dangerous, it was to report for jury duty.  After that, I wrote to Potter County Clerk Caroline Woodburn, 2016 Texas Clerk of the Year, and told her I was refuse to serve and I gave specific examples of the corruption and the danger I faced should I show up an unpopular decision.  The 2016 Texas Clerk of the Year apparently only responded once.  I received a call from Potter County, which I did not answer.  No message was left.

2016 Clerk of the Year, who has served nearly 20 years in her position, is married to 108th District Judge Douglas Woodburn.  Her husband is a brother to David Woodburn, who served on the Amarillo College Board of Regents.  In one of my jury summons responses to Clerk Woodburn, I cited corruption at AC, where her brother-in-law was a Regent.  

After a friend and I revealed a number of instances of corruption, a student was sent by the AC administration to make threats against the friend and I.  One of the threats was witnessed by a City employee.  Neither AC (for which Mark White, former Chair of the State Bar Disciplinary Committee, serves as general counsel) nor the Potter County Attorney's office (to whom I have repeatedly reported the crime) would initiate and independent investigation.  The student who made the threats seems to have inexplicably vanished from Amarillo.

I have ventured waaay off track.  I actually USED to show up for jury duty.  On one of those occasions, 251st District Judge Ana Estevez gave the instruction to the jury pool.  The day was April 2nd.  Judge Estevez "joked" that if it had been April 1st, she would have played an April Fool's joke on us and told us jurors were being selected for a week long capital murder trial.  Get it???  Because capital murder trials are HILARIOUS.  Especially for family members of the victim(s) and the family of the accused who could see their loved one put to death.  Wrongful convictions in Potter County are especially hilarious, even more so when the defendant is wrongfully executed.