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Can't they postpone your turn for another time?
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Some courts are pretty lenient and understanding if accepting jury duty at this time would cause undue hardship. Even if it's "mom" duties.
Mom duties are some of the most important duties in life.
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Call me a weirdo
But I been trying to get jury duty for the fucking longest now. I have a friend in Houston who has been called four times in the past year, but she never gets pass the intial interview.
Ok, I have a morbid curiosity for court proceedings, I would love to NOT award someone 50 million for spilling coffee on their vagina, or wearing resin shoes on a machine with metal cogs. See, I have a feeling that when I actually do get somewhere in life where i want to be and don't want to be bothered by the trivial shit that crams up the court dockets, they will snatch me away, like they are doing to you. I'm trying to treat like chicken pox, do it early and hope it never comes back.
Best of luck to you not having to deal with all the B.S. and getting back to your life.
But I been trying to get jury duty for the fucking longest now. I have a friend in Houston who has been called four times in the past year, but she never gets pass the intial interview.
Ok, I have a morbid curiosity for court proceedings, I would love to NOT award someone 50 million for spilling coffee on their vagina, or wearing resin shoes on a machine with metal cogs. See, I have a feeling that when I actually do get somewhere in life where i want to be and don't want to be bothered by the trivial shit that crams up the court dockets, they will snatch me away, like they are doing to you. I'm trying to treat like chicken pox, do it early and hope it never comes back.
Best of luck to you not having to deal with all the B.S. and getting back to your life.
Ah, but they pay you such an exhorbatent amount of money for your inconvienence.... like a whole $10 a day. Isn't that worth your time to have to listen about some Doctors fuck up?
Seriously, don't they know a moms life is the most hetic and unforgiving?
Seriously, don't they know a moms life is the most hetic and unforgiving?
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No lawyer wants me, all of them hate me, I'm going out and rejoice!
I could tell stories you wouldn't believe. All I can imagine is that the defense just naturally presumes that I'm the hangin' sort and wants me out of the courtroom ASAP. Must be the claws and the hat, I guess . . .
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Probably did, courts have a strange sense of humor. 
Now what you should do is go in for the jury duty like a dutiful citizen, wait with everyone else, and if your name is called, go i and tell them the truth for the questions. Of course the truth is you hate everyone, they should get the death sentence because they might have done a crime and stick with it. They may try and trick you with their follow up questions, no matter what they should be shot or executed.
Both of the attorney camps can just excuse you, don't have to give a reason so unless the judge says otherwise your excused the first time you say lawbreakers should just be shot.
Now what you should do is go in for the jury duty like a dutiful citizen, wait with everyone else, and if your name is called, go i and tell them the truth for the questions. Of course the truth is you hate everyone, they should get the death sentence because they might have done a crime and stick with it. They may try and trick you with their follow up questions, no matter what they should be shot or executed.
Both of the attorney camps can just excuse you, don't have to give a reason so unless the judge says otherwise your excused the first time you say lawbreakers should just be shot.
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Roger that. If you just send them a nice, informal letter explaining the situation in plain English there's a decent chance they'll let you off the hook. Tell them you hesitate to ask because you respect the system want to honor your duty, etc. - they like that.
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Laughing -
I like it. I really do!
I'll loan you my NRA baseball cap. That's always a good red flag for the defense if the client is guilty and for the prosecution if it's a firearms related crime. Either way they send you home.
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On the other-hand, you'll likely be charged with something in a week or so and YOUR jury will be a crew of knuckle walking, mouth breathing Jim Johnsons. Karma will get you!
On the other-hand, you'll likely be charged with something in a week or so and YOUR jury will be a crew of knuckle walking, mouth breathing Jim Johnsons. Karma will get you!
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That made me glad I haven't jumped on the bandwagon and put you on ignore. Thanks for making me laugh.
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1 Dress and make up like Sarah Palin
2 Wear the biggest Palin button you can find.
3 No defence counsell will want you.
PS Make sure none of your friends see you on the way to court
Is this too great a sacrifice?
2 Wear the biggest Palin button you can find.
3 No defence counsell will want you.
PS Make sure none of your friends see you on the way to court
Is this too great a sacrifice?
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You *can* postpone
I don't know about where you are, but where I am you can postpone Jury Duty up to three months, no questions asked the first time around. You don't even have to say why. But they start to get very strict after that; you really need to have a good reason for postponing again. And eventually, they'll stop giving you postponements and you'd better believe, there's no getting out of it. I've seen people try all ways to wiggle free, and it's no go. If you say "I can't sit on this case!" the judge will ask, "What kind of case can you sit on? I'll send you there."
You are doing your duty--at least so far as sitting through jury selection.
Luckily, the system we have now is one-day, one-jury. That means that you have call in for five days. You call the night before and if they don't want you the next day, you don't go in. If, after five days, you haven't gone in, it's done. And you're off the hook for a year.
If you do get called in, then either you get put on a jury that day, or you don't and you get to go home, jury duty done. If you DO get put on a jury, well, you're on it till it's done. In the three times that I've come close to being on a jury, two times the case was dismissed and settled out of court before voir dire for the jurors was finished. That is, we came in, people got questioned. We went home. Came in the next day to finish the questioning and were told that the case was settled and we were free to go, jury duty done.
The third time, I got picked. And believe me, I was totally honest about how I felt, and showed the lawyers how sharp and no-nonsense I was--they still wanted me. You never, never, NEVER know what the lawyers want (or think they want) in a juror, and even if you think "They'll never pick me"--hey, you might be *exactly* what they're looking for on this particular case.
So I was on a jury. It lasted 4 days, a criminal case that wasn't worth the tax payer's money--but we deliberated seriously and well and came to, I think, the right verdict. The worst part of it was just sitting around waiting while the lawyers had long, private side-bars with the judge. Other than that, it wasn't horrible or worth complaining about. My life wasn't that badly disrupted, and I got to have lunch downtown everyday. French Dipped Sandwiches, yum!
I don't know about where you are, but where I am you can postpone Jury Duty up to three months, no questions asked the first time around. You don't even have to say why. But they start to get very strict after that; you really need to have a good reason for postponing again. And eventually, they'll stop giving you postponements and you'd better believe, there's no getting out of it. I've seen people try all ways to wiggle free, and it's no go. If you say "I can't sit on this case!" the judge will ask, "What kind of case can you sit on? I'll send you there."
You are doing your duty--at least so far as sitting through jury selection.
Luckily, the system we have now is one-day, one-jury. That means that you have call in for five days. You call the night before and if they don't want you the next day, you don't go in. If, after five days, you haven't gone in, it's done. And you're off the hook for a year.
If you do get called in, then either you get put on a jury that day, or you don't and you get to go home, jury duty done. If you DO get put on a jury, well, you're on it till it's done. In the three times that I've come close to being on a jury, two times the case was dismissed and settled out of court before voir dire for the jurors was finished. That is, we came in, people got questioned. We went home. Came in the next day to finish the questioning and were told that the case was settled and we were free to go, jury duty done.
The third time, I got picked. And believe me, I was totally honest about how I felt, and showed the lawyers how sharp and no-nonsense I was--they still wanted me. You never, never, NEVER know what the lawyers want (or think they want) in a juror, and even if you think "They'll never pick me"--hey, you might be *exactly* what they're looking for on this particular case.
So I was on a jury. It lasted 4 days, a criminal case that wasn't worth the tax payer's money--but we deliberated seriously and well and came to, I think, the right verdict. The worst part of it was just sitting around waiting while the lawyers had long, private side-bars with the judge. Other than that, it wasn't horrible or worth complaining about. My life wasn't that badly disrupted, and I got to have lunch downtown everyday. French Dipped Sandwiches, yum!
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Well crap.
No advice, you've gotten lots. Just *HUGS*
No advice, you've gotten lots. Just *HUGS*
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Sorry, VM, but you'd be sent home and told to come back wearing something more appropriate, tomorrow. I was just on Jury duty. They won't let you wear things like that if you're a potential juror.
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You say that, but, once again, I've just been on Jury Duty. You don't get told everything, or presented all the evidence. The case I was on was one where you, hearing everything that happened and why, might say that our verdict was wrong. It had to do with a dad and his delinquent daughter. You might well say, "The dad did the right thing! If I had a daughter like that, and she acted that way...."
But we didn't get all the info. The defense and prosecution can only present what is relevant to the case, and a lot gets left out. We jurors knew, when we went into deliberations, that we were only getting the merest sliver of the picture of what happened. But on that silver we had to decide.
You can't Monday-morning-quarterback on a jury's decision. Not unless you've heard exactly and only the same evidence that they heard. If you've heard the whole story--or heard only one bias side of the story, then you can't say what you'd decide if you'd been sitting on the jury.
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