A DeKalb County attorney was jailed overnight recently after she complained to the court that serving on a jury would force her to work nights to keep up with her own job.
Attorney Wilma Beaty, identified as “Juror No. 1” hearing a personal injury lawsuit, refused to take the required oath and exhibited a pro-defense bias, according to a contempt order entered by DeKalb County State Court Judge Dax Lopez.
He fined Beaty $500 and ordered her jailed between 8 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday on the last weekend of March.
Beaty could not be reached for comment. In an email to the judge, she said she could not give the case a higher priority than she would accord her own client. She said she would have to work nights to keep up, “all of which I blame on the plaintiff.”
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