My fellow lister tells us that blind people can't serve on juries because they have to rely on others visual accounts to determine a persons innocence or guilt.
This caused me to wonder about the accuracy of the eye report.
Imagine that you turn the corner and come face to face with the ugliest punk you ever met. He slams you in the face with his beer bottle and grabs your fat wallet and heads down the road. He is caught and his ratty behind is hauled before a judge and jury. Your attorney tells of this pug ugly, towering, mean man of violence. His attorney trots him out looking like the Sunday School Superintendent, all humble, shy smile, clean shaven,.
"Your honor", he says softly. "This gentleman came around the corner and ran right into me. He screamed something and threw his wallet into my hands and ran down the road".
The jury looks at him, then at you, dressed in your cleanest faded jeans and tye dyed shirt, with your pony tail dangling down your back and your Hispanic face hanging out.
The Sunday School boy goes on in almost a whisper, "I was running after him when an officer of the law ordered me to halt, which I promptly did."
The jurors are swayed. They see what they see. A case of mistaken identity, or an attempt by this scruffy fellow to smear the reputation of an upstanding young Christian man.
But the blind juror, one Carl Jarvis, is not fooled by appearances. He rises up and declares, "The defendant is guilty as sin!"
And how did he know this with such certainty? Well, his super blind man hearing overheard the fellow whisper to his attorney, "Watch this con job pal."
Yes friends, Blind Super Hero does it again!
Tune in again tomorrow at this same time for another in the Adventures of a Blind American Hero.
Curious Carl
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