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May 10, 2010 · 15:21 · 13 min

Jury duty on a meth case and the Virginia Slims cigarette forensics

A host describes serving on a jury in a meth case involving the dealer's girlfriend, the jury-room dynamics, and his vague-answers strategy for getting seated. He explains the four counts, the failure-to-obtain-a-drug-tax-stamp charge he initially railed against before admitting a juror's job is applying the law as written, and his amateur-detective breakthrough: identifying Virginia Slims in crime-scene photos as proof the girlfriend still lived in the house, since men do not smoke Virginia Slims. The segment devolves into Virginia Slims lore, pipe-smoking dreams, and Popeye.

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