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Jury duty and me
Raekreu
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So I got my first ever summons for jury duty, as per the thread title. I'm due to show up on a monday, but I'm listed as a standby. Basically, the document says I should call a listed number the night before to find out, but I have no idea if they mean business day or literal day before.
My question is this: what do I do, exactly? Is it as easy as calling up their number the evening before to find out if I'm needed?
My question is this: what do I do, exactly? Is it as easy as calling up their number the evening before to find out if I'm needed?
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I mean you could call friday and if they say come in you have time to notify your boss and thats cool, but if they dont update it till after friday then you might be a spot of trouble. Theres reall no harm in calling both days just to be sure.
if you are lucky you wont even have to show up
I just got done with jury duty and for me it was call after 6:30PM the night before for morning reporting then after 12:00PM the same day for afternoon reporting. Even if they call you in most likely you'll just sit in a room for 5 hours so bring a book.
And in most cases you sit in a room for hours only to be dismissed anyway at the end of the day. If you get selected it can be an interesting experience though.
I had fun when I did my jury duty. Such a surreal experience. I don't see why people try to get out of it.
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by law employers are supposed to allow you some time off to attend jury duty, but some employers are less... accommodating about it. it's also quite a chunk of time out of a person's normal daily routine.
that being said, i like jury duty too, and the whole process is fascinating to me.
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Also, while you're supposed to get the time off; rare is the case where you actually get PAID for that time off.
On my last jury duty I proceeded as far as hearing the plaintiff and defendant give their summaries of the case. The crime was a man killing his wife in front of his toddler, then taking the toddler on a high speed car chase the wrong way on a freeway and crashing into another innocent person. The details of the events were not fun to hear. If I got selected for the jury, I would have been sequestered for something like 6-8 weeks. Thankfully, I was able to get myself disqualified, which was hard to do because everyone was trying to get themselves disqualified.
So yeah, not always a fun thing.
Anyway, the plaintiff attorney for the lady told us we'd have to look at medical documentation about the injuries and the second he found out I was a nurse I got booted immediately.
right. some courts give a daily stipend to jurors if the case they've been assigned lasts more than a few days. depends on the state and the court system. the stipends are usually really low, only enough to cover a lunch meal. and with many state courts seeing huge budget cuts now, i wouldn't be surprised if the stipends go away entirely.
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I was just on a cancer misdiagnosis case and neither side dismissed a woman who had a double mastectomy within the last two years that surprised all of us. I tried to get dismissed... my sister in law who is a lawyer said "if you were in my jury pool I would pick you" can't figure out if that is a compliment or not.