Pharmacy Murder Suspect Begs Out of Jury Duty

As jury duty excuses go, being in jail awaiting trial for quadruple homicide is pretty solid. David Laffer, the man accused of killing four people in a Long Island pharmacy last month, was supposed to show up for jury duty on June 24, the day after his arrest, the Wall Street Journal reports. Laffer wrote a letter from jail on the 28^th explaining his predicament and asking, politely, to be excused. “I simply wish to relay this information to you, so that I do not get into any further legal troubles,” he explains. (More David Laffer stories.)