Judgment Time
Jury Trial
August 19-20, 2009. Exactly one month after my dream on July 19th of joining the National Guard [see “Safeguard Your Christ Mission”], I was selected to serve on a jury of a most difficult and challenging trial: a child rape case. For two solid days we, the jury, had to sit through horrific testimony, listening to the most sordid, disgusting and heartrending details one could possibly imagine, involving multiple rapes of a ten-year-old girl over a six-month period (she had turned eleven just prior to the last alleged rape). At the time of …