jury duty

he.who.forgets said:

What are your experiences with Jury duty? I'm turning 30 this year and have never been summoned to serve. I'm curious to see how many times you guys have been summoned to serve. After 12 years of being a legal adult, I'm surprised I've never been summoned. I guess I'm lucky.

Are you registered to vote? I think in NJ that's somehow connected. I get summoned every 3 years (I believe that's as often as they can legally). Usually its a lawsuit for auto accident, I would not mind serving but I can't do auto lawsuits. I've been sued for accident where another woman had a seizure, crossed over median, driving south in north bound lanes, caused 5 car accident, and I was sued because my car hit another car after being struck by another vehicle involved. How is that my fault?? Hate lawsuits. I always say I can't be objective when it comes to those. I remember one where the husband could no longer perform his marital duties in the bedroom because of the stress resulting from a car crash. Get the fuck out of here. Fucking looking for a free ride for life.

Can you see why I get dismissed? I think there's probably smoke coming out if my ears when the judge questions me. .

Otherwise, I have no problem serving.

eeriepadave said:

eeriepadave said:

LloydXmas wrote:

eeriepadave wrote:

just got a letter in the mail for jury duty at the end of Aug.

skip it

i don't know least i'll get off work.

didn't get called for this one

got summoned again for Monday. Won't find out until tomorrow after 5 if i have to report. I think i'd rather do jury duty than go into work on monday


well went in. waited about an hour for them to seat and organize people. then went to the courtroom. attorney and defense lawyer asked the potential jurors questioned. they discussed it and all. Then they called some jurors numbers to sit in the back (they weren't selected, which i was one of them). then the judge told the people that weren't selected to go home. So i'm home now. Pretty interesting. didn't have to go to work and get to do what i want now. Have to call back the number later tonight to see if i have to go back tomorrow morning though.

eeriepadave said:

eeriepadave said:

eeriepadave said:

LloydXmas wrote:

eeriepadave wrote:

just got a letter in the mail for jury duty at the end of Aug.

skip it

i don't know least i'll get off work.

didn't get called for this one

got summoned again for Monday. Won't find out until tomorrow after 5 if i have to report. I think i'd rather do jury duty than go into work on monday


well went in. waited about an hour for them to seat and organize people. then went to the courtroom. attorney and defense lawyer asked the potential jurors questioned. they discussed it and all. Then they called some jurors numbers to sit in the back (they weren't selected, which i was one of them). then the judge told the people that weren't selected to go home. So i'm home now. Pretty interesting. didn't have to go to work and get to do what i want now. Have to call back the number later tonight to see if i have to go back tomorrow morning though.

interesting to see this thread. i had just had it last week locally and got on a trial and was there for 3 days. 1st time ever got picked (been summoned 5 or 6 times). was definitely interesting being on a jury for the 1st time.

don't have to go back. my "pool order" # was around 100 and they just wanted like 150- 280 or something like that for tomorrow.

pjhawks said:

eeriepadave said:

don't have to go back. my "pool order" # was around 100 and they just wanted like 150- 280 or something like that for tomorrow.

is this local or federal jury duty you are referring to? isn't local just one day or one trial? For Delco it's one day or one trial but federal is 3 days minimum.

local (chester county). it's usually one or two days or length of a trial. I guess if you don't get picked the first day it's highly unlikely they need you the second, but who knows. they told us to call back just in case.

Funny that this thread pops up today. Got my summons for federal jury duty in the mail yesterday. Looking at when I'm supposed to report and the potential cases, I'm a little nervous that it will wind up being for the Charleston massacre case. That one will likely be long and drawn out.

eeriepadave said:

got a letter for jury duty towards the end of October

was suppose to go today but about a week or so ago i got an email saying not to call the night before or report today and the panel I was selected for has been cancelled. So that was pretty cool.

I’ll never serve jury duty…no way am I wasting my time…

Got summoned again for jury duty, July 2nd and 3rd. So that kinda sucks. Have to call the night before. Hopefully won't have to go in again.

eeriepadave said:

Got summoned again for jury duty, July 2nd and 3rd. So that kinda sucks. Have to call the night before. Hopefully won't have to go in again.

That happened to me. Almost the exact same days. Must have been about 20 years ago. I think I was in my last year of college and it was the days leading up to a holiday weekend.

The thing was a joke.
Like I said, it was a Friday before a holiday weekend (I think 4th of July). We all get called in. I was one of the original selected to go through the questioning process. It was a case of assault against a police officer. So my dad and brother being cops I was obviously among the first dismissed (I think I was the second one dismissed behind the wife of a cop).
As soon as they dismissed me, the judge tells the court they will dismiss early for the weekend and to return back on Tuesday. I remember thinking if I was still there, I'd be so mad they dismissed early, just finish the day so everyone else doesn't have to come back for a few hours on Tuesday.
When I go to the clerk to submit my paperwork he was just leaving the counter and I stopped him and said I I was dismissed and need him to sign the paperwork. He tells me he just shut the computer down and he was going home early, and to come back Tuesday to get it signed.
I told him I was dismissed, and I will not be back. He said if I don't return on Tuesday then it wouldn't count as being served. We went back and forth for a few minutes. I eventually just read his name tag and said I will not be back. If you are okay with me explaining the reason why my jury duty was not completed was because you wanted to leave work an hour early and refused to sign my paperwork, then that is fine with me. But I will not be here Tuesday.
He huffed and puffed and was all dramatic turning the computer back on. But seriously, I was the last one dismissed and they just wanted to shut the court down early and expected everyone to take another day off work to come back so they could leave an hour early on Friday. 
I would love to have a job where I can just leave without consequences.