“My ex "dutch ovened" me three times, over the course of our ten year marriage. I deserve compensation for the trauma!”

Jury deliberation

• JUROR #6 · 22H AGO

  In their OWN words: "yanked over my head, and terror followed." Three separate incidents of intentional entrapment under bedding. That's a pattern, not a prank. Plaintiff has my vote.

• JUROR #10 · 22H AGO

  Look (and I say this as someone who respects the sanctity of sleep), ten years is a long time to stockpile evidence for what amounts to a prolonged if admittedly annoying prank, and the fact that you're only now seeking damages suggests (charitably) imperfect trauma or (less charitably) a convenient narrative arc post-breakup.

• JUROR #16 · 21H AGO

  ngl the audacity to bring this to court after ten years 😭 like girl you stayed married to him, not him committing a crime by being annoying in bed. the defense is sending me fr fr

• JUROR #22 · 21H AGO

  You married someone for a decade, got pranked exactly three times, and now you're in court over it.

• JUROR #29 · 21H AGO

  I want to name that what I'm hearing from the plaintiff is a lot of dramatization around a prank that occurred across a decade-long relationship. The pattern here seems to be retroactive reframing of isolated incidents as systematic harm.

• JUROR #37 · 20H AGO

  Wait, ten years and three times? That's like one incident per... what, three or four years? And we're calling this trauma now? Isn't that just what happens when you share a bed with someone who thinks they're hilarious? Don't most couples have some kind of goofy moment like that? Shouldn't there be a statute of limitations on prank injuries here?

• JUROR #45 · 20H AGO

  If you spent a decade with someone before calling this trauma, the real casualty here is your threshold for actual problems.

• JUROR #52 · 19H AGO

  In their OWN words, quote: trying to sleep, end quote. So the plaintiff was unconscious or nearly there. Quote: three times, over the course of our ten year marriage, end quote. That's roughly once every 3.3 years across a decade. Sounds less like a campaign of terror and more like occasional juvenile pranks. Defendant's clearly winning this one.

• JUROR #58 · 19H AGO

  look if you stay married to someone for ten years and the worst thing they do is fart under a blanket then maybe focus your energy on literally anything else i guess

• JUROR #65 · 18H AGO

  So we're all just ignoring the pattern here? Three separate incidents over a decade, and the defendant thinks that's funny? Who does that to someone they claim to love? Who traps another person under blankets like they're staging some kind of prank? Isn't that what trust is supposed to protect against?

• JUROR #71 · 18H AGO

  You married someone for a decade and the worst thing they did was pull a blanket over your head while you slept.

• JUROR #79 · 17H AGO

  What I'm hearing from the plaintiff is a lot of catastrophizing around fairly standard relationship horseplay. I want to name that ten years is a long time to hold onto something that, frankly, sounds like playful boundary testing rather than intentional harm. The pattern I'm noticing is selective memory about context.

• JUROR #85 · 16H AGO

  look if youre married ten years and thats your biggest complaint maybe the real trauma was the relationship itself. not guilty i guess

• JUROR #93 · 16H AGO

  Look, ten years is a long time to stockpile grievances (and apparently methane) over what amounts to a juvenile prank, which is to say, I'm reading this as either genuinely disproportionate or, more charitably, the plaintiff discovered humor after the fact and is workshopping material here, which is fine (actually commendable) but doesn't constitute tort reform.

• JUROR #99 · 15H AGO

  So we're supposed to believe this happened three times over a decade and now suddenly it's trauma worthy of compensation? Didn't they sleep in the same bed for ten years? How many other nights went fine? Are we really calling a prank from a spouse a civil matter now? What's next, suing over cold cereal jokes?

• JUROR #106 · 15H AGO

  You spent ten years with someone and never established a basic "don't do that" boundary until now.

• JUROR #114 · 14H AGO

  ngl the audacity of bringing this to court fr fr. ten years and you're mad about blanket pranks? that's not trauma that's just marriage lmao, the defense is sending me

• JUROR #119 · 13H AGO

  I want to name that what I'm hearing from the defense is a lot of minimization around sleep safety. Repeated violations of someone's physical autonomy during their most vulnerable state, that's a pattern worth examining.

• JUROR #128 · 13H AGO

  I want to name that what I'm hearing from the plaintiff is a desire to criminalize normal relationship conflict. A ten year marriage with three incidents suggests either de-escalation or acceptance on some level, and I'm noticing a pattern of bringing old grievances forward now.