HOWELL, Mich. -- The court-ordered ...

HOWELL, Mich. -- The court-ordered report Brandon Dickens had to write after ducking public of jury duty has not passed muster.

Livingston shire Circuit Judge David Reader said Dickens' paper was plagiarized from the Web. To the 20-year-old Dickens, the report solely contained "quoted" material.

Not surprisingly, Reader had the last word.

"Really, what I was looking for, Mr Dickens, was your have work," Reader said last week in upping Dickens' punishment from three days in the courthouse to four days -- and ordering him to rewrite the paper.

Dickens originally landed in Reader's doghouse in June when he failed to respond to jury duty after luncheon The judge ordered him to use up three days observing a trial and to write a five-page paper onward the history of jury service.

When Dickens casted in the paper, a court employee recognized phrases from something besides the employee had read previously.

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