James Pietragallo

When the judge said, did you call anyone you thought was pro-law enforcement, he said, quote, half the list I'd say probably not.

He said there's a couple of them definitely not pro-law enforcement after we talked to them.

And he said most of the people that he called didn't even believe it.

They had to call the clerk's office because it sounded like a prank call.

Hi, I'm the sheriff from another county or I'm the sheriff from another town.

Would you can you come to the courthouse and be a juror today?

That's not how jury duty works.

Yes, my refrigerator is running.

Leave me alone.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

I got Prince Albert in a can and I'll let him out.

Don't worry about it.

So he did.

Obviously, the defense lawyer said this said that it looked like a systematic exclusion of Native Americans from the jury because the deputy said he didn't call anyone from lower Brule.

and part of the Lower Brule Indian Reservation, explaining that a large number of the Lower Brule residents from the original pool hadn't shown up anyway.

So he said, fuck them, I won't even try.

So the judge says, you can't do that, stupid.

So he ordered him to go back and recruit from there the next day.

You got to make it even.