James Pietragallo

When the two summoned jury panels were – they went through by challenges and the people were all gone.

They couldn't seat enough people.

It was a small place.

There's not enough – there isn't a lot of people.

So the judge ordered the sheriff's office to, quote, go find more jurors.

Go get more people, please.

So a deputy named Rob Parker gets on the phone, and he rounds up 20 prospective jurors.

The judge asks them, how'd you find these 20 people?

So Deputy Parker explained that he probably, he said that he went to town, to Owakoma, Reliance, Kennebec, Presho, and Vivian, these towns, to try to get three people per town.

That was the goal.

Just driving down, hey, you 18?

Are you a people?

Are you an American citizen at all?

So he went to town to get three people, and he said, quote, we started at the top, letter A. Every third person down was getting called.

They opened the white pages and called every third person.

Holy shit.

They said if they weren't home, then we went to the next three.

It was time consuming, so we went, quote, I bet they're home.

We called them.

They did.