Voir dire.

There was police testimony planned, so the judge asked each prospective juror about past encounters with law enforcement, including if they had been arrested, for what, and the disposition.

After one woman said yes, the judge asked “for?”

“[Ending someone].”

After a brief pause, “and the disposition?”

“They let me go because it was self defense.”

The judge started to move to the next prospective juror, when the woman interrupted “well, don’t you want to hear about the other times?”

The spiral phenomenon over Norway.

Leukemia when I was 15 years old. Tough times.

- OD'd on c*ke like 3 or 4 times.

- Got really bad alcohol poising a few times, and probably should have been hospitalized as I could feel my organs fighting to keep from shutting down.

- Took a literal handful of Xanax and felt my consciousness going in and out and was only saved by being in public at a basketball game and the noise kept me from flatlining

- I used to drive a manual truck; the road was wet and someone suddenly stopped in front of me. I slammed on the breaks and let off the clutch at the same time and my car spun out, went across 3 lanes of traffic and ended up on the complete opposite side of the road in a lane going away from where I had just been. I avoided being t-boned by like 10 cars in the process.

- Crashed a few cars while black out drunk, one of the times was on a road that was on a massive hill and people have died driving off.

Needless to say, I'm sober now and hopefully I'm not already on my 9th life.

I was 18 a very very depressed undiagnosed at the time troubled girl, o*****sed on h****n I was going to go home that night I was at a friends house if I had of gone home I would of died in my sleep for my mum to find in the morning.

Instead I fell asleep where I was and woke up shivering and terrified with an ambulance lady crouched down in front of me with a cannula in my hand I specifically remember blood going all over my shoes from my hand, the ambulance staff were really lovely which I so needed at the time,took another 3 years of chaotic b******t till 21 but left that life behind many many moons ago.

My dads g*n jamming when I attempted at 16 or 17. I'm not religious, but at the ripe ol age of 26- i consider it to be a severe stroke of luck, one of my 9 lives being used up. And 10 years later- im happy it jammed.

Having two cops knock on my door in the middle of the night to tell me my husband, the father of my then 7 year old son, had been in an accident. When I asked if he was okay their only response was "He's alive but you might want to hurry".

Then upon arrival to the hospital we got put into a private waiting room and for about five hours the only two people I saw were 1. A chaplain and 2. A nurse that described, in horrific detail, all my husband's injuries (and there was A LOT). Oh, and just sprinkled in that he may be paralyzed and/or brain dead.

So then I had to sit hours without any other answers while he had multiple life saving procedures, all while dealing with our child who was so scared. They're both okay now, but it took months in the ICU and a long couple of years to get there and we're finally on the other side.

Was a teacher in a 9th grade class. My students pranked me like a master. I bowed to their greatness. Looked out at the class that I'd get each and every one of them. I never brought it up again. They were on the edges of their seats whenever they saw me. For four years this went on. On the day of their graduation they asked me why I didn't prank them. My response was I pulled the greatest prank I could think of. You spent fours looking for me to get you. Four years looking over your shoulders. Best prank ever. They agreed. Best innocent revenge story out there.