Friend of mine was once in a pool for a court-martial. Wanting to get out and knowing about peremptory challenges, where an attorney can have a potential juror tossed without question or argument from the other side, during a recess he leaned against the courtroom wall within earshot of the defense counsel and muttered in a sort of stage whisper, “I hope they fry the bastard.” As soon as the session resumed, the defense counsel had my friend tossed using one of his peremptory challenges.
Friend of mine was once in a pool for a court-martial. Wanting to get out and knowing about peremptory challenges, where an attorney can have a potential juror tossed without question or argument from the other side, during a recess he leaned against the courtroom wall within earshot of the defense counsel and muttered in a sort of stage whisper, “I hope they fry the bastard.” As soon as the session resumed, the defense counsel had my friend tossed using one of his peremptory challenges.