{"id":33461,"date":"2011-01-19T00:37:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T05:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=33461"},"modified":"2011-01-19T00:37:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T05:37:54","slug":"cat-ordered-to-jury-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/cat-ordered-to-jury-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat ordered to jury duty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Telegraph UK<\/a><\/strong>
\n5:44PM GMT 17 Jan 2011<\/p>\n

Anna Esposito wrote to Suffolk Superior Crown Court in Boston, to explain that a mistake had been made, but a jury commissioner replied saying the cat, named Tabby Sal, “must attend” on March 23.
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Your Honor, this juror is clearly biased against my client. Or just high on catnip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nMrs Esposito had included a letter from her vet confirming that the cat was “a domestic short-haired neutered feline.” Tabby Sal had been entered by Mrs Esposito under the ‘pets’ section of the last census. “When they ask him guilty or not guilty? What’s he supposed to say — miaow?” She said.<\/p>\n

“Sal is a member of the family so I listed him on the last Census form under pets but there has clearly been a mix-up.”<\/p>\n

A website for the US judicial system states that jurors are “not expected to speak perfect English.”<\/p>\n

Sent in by Beth; I wonder if the summons was issued while Mercury was still retrograde? Or maybe Tabby Sal is a Gemini who’s been living a double life? Then again, maybe this is just the beginning of 2012: reign of the cats. – amanda<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Telegraph UK 5:44PM GMT 17 Jan 2011 Anna Esposito wrote to Suffolk Superior Crown Court in Boston, to explain that a mistake had been made, but a jury commissioner replied saying the cat, named Tabby Sal, “must attend” on March 23. Mrs Esposito had included a letter from her vet confirming that the cat … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}