{"id":22589,"date":"2014-08-18T21:10:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T13:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22589"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:34:22","slug":"mr-t-pities-criminals-as-he-awaits-jury-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/18\/mr-t-pities-criminals-as-he-awaits-jury-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. T pities criminals as he awaits jury duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22607\" style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mr-T.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22607\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mr-T.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. T (Everett Collection \/ ShutterStock)\" width=\"406\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mr-T.jpg 676w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mr-T-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. T (Everett Collection \/ ShutterStock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ROLLING MEADOWS, Illinois &#8212; Lawrence Tureaud, better known as Mr. T, was in true form as he waited outside a suburban Chicago courthouse to be called for jury duty.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting his usual Mohawk and wearing an FBI sweatshirt and hat, but not a gold chain, the star of &#8220;Rocky III&#8221; and TV&#8217;s &#8220;The A-Team&#8221; signed autographs and made his feelings known.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I pity the criminals today,&#8221; as he explained he had been designated a potential juror for a trial scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy arimidex online <a href=\"https:\/\/insighttherapeutics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/arimidex.html\">https:\/\/insighttherapeutics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/arimidex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1pRCTnW\">The Daily Herald in Arlington Heights reports<\/a> the 62-year-old Tureaud said he never considered &#8220;playing hooky&#8221; after receiving the jury summons to the Rolling Meadows court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. T said he understood his duty and said it&#8217;s not his style to shirk responsibilities.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy flexeril online <a href=\"https:\/\/insighttherapeutics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/flexeril.html\">https:\/\/insighttherapeutics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/flexeril.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Tureaud wasn&#8217;t picked as a juror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROLLING MEADOWS, Illinois &#8212; Lawrence Tureaud, better known as Mr. T, was in true form as he waited outside a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280821,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589\/revisions\/280821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}