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Jury Doodie
ObiFett
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I'm sitting in a massive room of bored people watching TVs telling us how to be jurors.
Did you know it's dumb to send a friend request to the defendent while you are on the jury? People have done that!
Also, it's dumb to get on facebook and announce what the verdict will be a day early. People have done that, too!
We just saw a trailer for a movie called "Summoned ... Again", it was riveting.
I get that this is a civic duty, but I'm in the middle of the last semester for my CS degree and I'm taking 18 credits. I just wish my duty had chosen another time to show up.
I hope I only have to be here for one day. I literally don't have time for a long trial.
Tell us about your jury duty experiences!
Did you know it's dumb to send a friend request to the defendent while you are on the jury? People have done that!
Also, it's dumb to get on facebook and announce what the verdict will be a day early. People have done that, too!
We just saw a trailer for a movie called "Summoned ... Again", it was riveting.
I get that this is a civic duty, but I'm in the middle of the last semester for my CS degree and I'm taking 18 credits. I just wish my duty had chosen another time to show up.
I hope I only have to be here for one day. I literally don't have time for a long trial.
Tell us about your jury duty experiences!
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I was bummed to be dismissed, it was a civil case, it would've been interesting to see it all go down.
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have someone call you repeatedly during questioning
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we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Maybe I can find the judge on facebook and start spamming him friend requests.
Of course I haven't checked the mail today
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This is the best idea ever in the history of best ideas. You should do it. Please, please do it.
this will likely get you taken off jury duty for sure.
this will also likely get you slapped with a contempt of court fine!
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I don't know. I didn't really watch it.
Should I be worried about getting stuck on a month long trial? How common is it for this to be just a one day thing?
real talk: if you have finals coming up or you cannot skip classes and take them later, tell the court this. usually the judge is willing to accommodate. judges usually understand that students are in a bit of a tough spot. they may ask you to serve later after school's done.
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Part of being on a jury sounds like fun though.
Explaining to the registrar that I hadn't lived in that county for eight years was an exercise in frustration.
In Colorado, it was at the beginning of the day, since they knew what trials were scheduled. I volunteered to stay in case they needed backups. They didn't.
In NYC it was two days. I guess they don't plan their trials? since I sat waiting all day both days. Second day, nobody at all was called from the waiting room to serve.
Some lady chugged diet pills, and slim fast for years. After a while her body said fuck this, and started pretty much dying.
Some part of her intestine died, and they had to cut it out and reroute some shit.
Well, she died on the operating table.
There was a doctor walking by the room when the shit was hitting the fan, so he scrubbed up and jumped in to help.
So, the husband sued the two doctors.
During closing arguments the prosecution actually described the procedure incorrectly.
We unanimously said fuck that, and let them off.
A year or so later, I ran into one of the doctors at a bar. He bought me a beer, and we chatted about the trial a bit. He was a pretty rad dude.
(you should be an unofficial courtroom sketch artist)
Someone else got excused for this little gem he spouted:
"I'm not a bigot or anything, but I don't think I can be impartial due to the color of the defendant's skin. My brother and sister were beaten by four black guys and I think that would make me impartial because I still have issues with it."
This was a corporate case. In the hall when we were waiting for the bailiff to take our numbers and this jackass kept trying to justify his racism. People were agreeing with him!
I couldn't take it anymore once we all got to the elevator and spoke up and told him he is a bigot and he should be ashamed of himself. Then I took the stairs down the 11 floors.
so you got excused for telling the truth AND told off a jerkass racist? that's a damn good day in my book.
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It would have been a really interesting case to be on (police officer homicide is about as interesting as criminal court gets) but it would have taken a while, and I almost certainly wouldn't have been able to afford rent for long on the pitiful stipend they give jurors.
That's one of the reasons I'd be interested in trying jury duty.
My company has a policy whereby they cover the difference between the stipend and my regular salary.
I super think that if you don't have a good reason to get out of jury duty, you should just do it. Don't go in and talk about jury nullification or whatever the internet trick of the moment is. Do your duty. It's one of very few things that your country really asks of you.
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The good woman was summoned about six months before I was, though, and she was in a real case about a couple that trashed a hotel room. Among the damage included they apparently filled the heart shaped Jacuzzi with champagne and rose petals and totally fucked up the plumbing.
If your situation really doesn't allow you to spend 3 weeks working full time on minimum wage then usually all it takes to get out of it is an honest explanation.
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Their process is actually pretty slick! They put you on call for an entire month, but you don't have to go anywhere unless you actually get asked to (and even then you're not guaranteed to sit on a jury I suppose). Each Saturday you check in via phone or their web site with a specific code and they tell you if you have to report or not. It's actually pretty well done.
I did not end up getting called in for further selection.
So I got called for jury duty back in October but that morning my car battery died and I had to reschedule because there was no way I was going to make it downtown quickly enough if I had to take public transport.
This thread just reminded me that I forgot about my reschedule day.
I've been called 2-3 times before, attended, and was dismissed so hopefully they won't be too harsh? Sigh.
But my stepfather is a police officer, so I was dismissed every time in the interviews.
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What the fuck would happen?
Can you even get out of jury duty with that excuse?
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That's what happened to me. Plaintiff got injured in a DIY Big Box Store, was looking for a cash settlement for lingering nerve damage. They dismissed me during voir-dire a half hour after finding out that I had a college degree in biology.