A six-member jury is in place to decide whether a woman committed a crime when she swore and shouted at a Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting in January.
Carolyn Rodriguez, who goes by Carolina, has pleaded not guilty to hindering proceedings by disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine up to $4,000.
Another speaker at the Jan. 28 meeting, CJ Grisham, was expelled for swearing during his public comment time. When Rodriguez got to the podium, she told commissioners they couldn’t ban people from swearing, and she rattled off a list of expletives…