Fine Example Bureaucratic Incompetence

[FatMan]

Man Certain to Be Excused From Jury Duty

JAY, Okla. (AP) — A Delaware County man who prosecutors say was killed by his father-in-law was called for jury duty in his alleged killer's murder trial.

A court clerk says Scott Borton's name was listed in the jury pool for the first-degree murder trial of Roger Lee Lawrence.

Jury pools are taken from a list of people with drivers licenses and court officials say Borton's name was drawn at random.

Lawrence is accused of killing Borton last Easter as Borton was helping Lawrence's wife move out of the home she shared with Lawrence.

[PhatTBoll]

This is more like a fine example of a slow news day.

[CORed]

The only thing I see here that could remotely be called incompetent is that the drivers licence and jury pool records are perhaps not being purged of dead people as often as they should be. It's really just more of a bizarre coincidence than anything. The jury names were drawn at random and the victim happened to come up.