I seem to get picked every year. I would love to serve but my company doesn't pay for our absence so I usually respond by saying I would be in financial burden. The last time I tried to use this excuse, for some reason they didn't buy it so I had to take a day off to report. I got called into a courtroom expecting to be picked for some boring case but instead I got a traffic accident involving a motorcyclist. Score! Apparently the harley rider got hit by a soccer mom and he was suing her for damage or injury. I never made it onto the jury but I had my excuse ready if I was called up. I was going to say how my friend got hit and killed by a negligent driver and how cagers don't look for motorcyclist. I'm fairly certain I would have been kicked off of that jury.

I remember that the judge told us that we couldn't talk about ANYTHING we hear in the jury room for Grand Jury, so if we felt that we could keep our mouths shut, we should say so...     I'm really good friends with my boss, and we talk about every controversial topic available, or anything that's really stupid.

I almost participated just to be able to tell him everything I heard.

Well it's official. I called up and the recording said I had to report tomorrow. I'm pretty pissed off at this point, but I can't really do anything about it now. Just going to get in there early and hope it has something to do with something I'm biased about. Don't talk about it they say? Ha! I'll be complaining to every one of you tomorrow night about it. Screw them!

I think if you ever get charged with a crime you'd wish you had responsible people on the jury in your case.  Hey you don't want to serve ... move to Iran, Sudan, Cuba, Venezuala, Vietnam, North Korea ... heck there's lots of places you could go and not have the hassel of an open trial judged by your peers.  Something to think about ... but they probably don't have one of those great jobs waiting for you either.

Quote from: Jezecat on April 26, 2006, 05:13:12 AM
I think if you ever get charged with a crime you'd wish you had responsible people on the jury in your case.  Hey you don't want to serve ... move to Iran, Sudan, Cuba, Venezuala, Vietnam, North Korea ... heck there's lots of places you could go and not have the hassel of an open trial judged by your peers.  Something to think about ... but they probably don't have one of those great jobs waiting for you either.

ditto. seriously suck it up and do the f%$king time.  its part of being an american

I went about a month ago.   I was actually disappointed that I wasnt selected.   I think it would be an awesome experience to be on a jury.   I grew up watching Peoples Court and always enjoyed Law classes in High School.    My employer paid me for the full day, I was out of there by noon, and I got paid $40.00 for gas.    I'll take that anyday over going to work. 

 

last time I went, that morning I asked for an extension, (because I actually needed one) and when I eventually called back to find out my new date, they had excused me from jury duty.



Could of been because I scheduled my new date to be the week of a national holiday....

I'm back. Sat there for 2 hours and they dismissed us. Don't have to go back. My obligation is done. It was pretty painless, but they did tell us that we were lucky that day and it normally doesn't get done that fast. While I was there, they were offering internet access. I was going to try and get on to post here and blog on my site as much as possible, but I guess that's not needed now. Go me!

I've gotten a couple of notices over the last couple years (i'm only 24) and have ignored both on the grounds that "they didn't reach me." I have never had any trouble nor have I heard any reputable source that has had difficulty from simply ignoring them. I figure that even if they do decide its worth the courts time to persue all of us who just ignore them (and I'm sure that'd be a lot of people) that there would be a very difficult time proving any real responsibility. Lets say the want to impose a fine for ignoring something 'you didn't know about?' I mean how legal is that?

go and take one of these  http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=26010.new;topicseen#new

Quote from: subc on February 18, 2006, 12:13:55 AM
I got a letter on the mail to participate on a Jury.
I trashed it after reading it and laughed 

the US is funny sometimes.

anyway, I just wanted to say that i am not behind the bars yet.