Have you ever served on a jury?

[Bugman]

If so was it a civil or criminal case,and what was the outcome?

It has been years since i got a summons,and i have never been selected to serve.I once spend an entire day at the Travis County Courthouse,from 8 in the morning until 4 that afternoon only to be told the case and been settled out of court and no jury was needed.

I got back to my car and found a parking ticket on the windshield. The city did waive that when i showed up with my jury summons.That was damn nice of them i thought,considering that i had to take a few hours off from work to resolve the matter.

 

[fireguardian]

I recent had to serve on a jury for a civil case. It was so not fun at all. The way the ase was presented I pretty much had to awared money to a crook that never held up his end of a contract and fudged number but they couldn't prove it. Oh well. Honestly it was a time I actually would have rather been at work those two days.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

So far no, I haven't. But I want to. I've been fascinated by the legal process since I was a freshman in high school. I originally wanted to go to school to become a lawyer, but plans changed. 😀

 

[maniactickler]

Yes. in the spring. it was a civil case. the plaintiff won.

 

[hotdog]

I tell them I'm a student and get out of having to go. Suckers.

 

[Artoo]

I served on the jury for a criminal case back in May. Possibly one of the most boring things I have done in my life (including telesales), but I made good friends with some of the other jurors, despite being the youngest person there by far.

 

[desdemona]

Got summoned this past spring. But as a business owner who couldn't pay my employees or take care of my patients if I had to serve, I got released.

 

[AngelOfDarkness]

No, and it's unlikely that I ever will.

 

[steph]

Me too! DYING to serve on a major case!

I've been summoned twice but never had to serve~unfortunately, I work for a company that doesn't pay for me to serve my "civic duty"~can you beleive it ????? (I work in a major hospital for NON PROFIT ATTORNEYS!) I tried the "official letter from HR" stating as much which was rejected on site by the judge.

So, brilliant (and modest) genius that I am🙄I am fully prepared for my next summons with this approach~I will spew every sexist, racist, nutso, facist term I can think of during screening and convince the legal team that I am either crazy or suffer from a severe case of Tourette's. No sane party would want to touch me with a ten foot pole by the time I'm done with them.
XOXO

So far no, I haven't. But I want to. I've been fascinated by the legal process since I was a freshman in high school. I originally wanted to go to school to become a lawyer, but plans changed. 😀

 

[goddess_nemesis]

So, brilliant (and modest) genius that I am🙄I am fully prepared for my next summons with this approach~I will spew every sexist, racist, nutso, facist term I can think of during screening and convince the legal team that I am either crazy or suffer from a severe case of Tourette's. No sane party would want to touch me with a ten foot pole by the time I'm done with them.
XOXO

 

[steph]

You laugh m'doll (and in good company along with a dozen of my friends with companies that pay but what choice do I have? I need the stupid paycheck and the court's lousy $15 a day won't cover my mortgage.) And why doesn't anyone else ever think of this? Or am I the only one dumb enough to plant this seed publicly and fess up?
XOXO

 

[SamuelKhan]

How to get out of Jury duty...

...come dressed like this...

...or act like this guy...

...I shoot the bastard, that's my policy...

You'll get out of jury duty in seconds.

 

[kered]

I served three days on the infamous Mary Snowy vs The Rainbow Pillow Company trial. We were playing euchre in the jury room when they settled before the denfense presented it's case. I was bored to tears but made a whopping 41 bucks for my time and mileage.

 

[TonyInMyThroat]

It was a civil case where some douche bag with a neck brace was suing another guy for pain & suffering after a minor fender bender. Even after it was made clear that the guy had no medical problems, some in the jury were ready to generously award him until I emphatically explained that this was exactly why our insurance rates are so high. The douche bag got nothing …

 

[Mister Scruff]

Yes, criminal case, some bloke from Fazakerly who was out on license when he had a few tins of beer and decided to have a little wander over to his ex-girlfriend's house to smash her windows and smack her round the head with a cricket bat. One of the girl's mates took the stand as a witness and lied through her teeth, but apart from that it was an open and shut case; took 4 days, the last two of which were jury deliberation because some little scrotum decided he was going to continually vote not guilty because he didn't want to be a grass.

In the end the judge accepted a majority verdict of 11-1, Mr Cricket got 12 years (can't remember what charge he was up on but the judge increased his sentence because he had a 20-year history of violent offences), and I got the second week off (with pay) because there were no more cases to try 😀

 

[Artoo]

and I got the second week off (with pay) because there were no more cases to try 😀

No kidding, the same thing happened with me! 😀

 

[Mister Scruff]

It happens a lot apparently, usually if you're amongst the last ones called or your second week is a bank holiday. Legal types really hate working.

 

[the tickleshow]

I have served on two grand juries. Apparently, in NY, if you are called to serve on a grand jury (there is no selection, if you are called, you are in), they will never call you to serve on a petit jury again. So i had to hear 5-10 cases a day for a month; mostly drug deals, but there was an attempted rape case where the guy got off because the woman who claimed he raped her was completely un believeable and it became clear that she was trying to keep an affair from her husband. Unbelieveable. And we heard two murder cases involving NYC taxi drivers.
I remember throwing a chair in the jury room because the stupidity of my fellow jurors was making me sick. Pleasant, right?

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[cabalist]

I had the chance to serve on three juries years ago. On one occasion I was a very likely "pick" for a shoplifting case and another for a murder case. Not interested in spending so much of my time with something for so little monetary compensation, and not that particularly interested in the "experience", in both cases I managed to get myself excused by intentionally answering questions asked by the attornies in such a way that I knew they wouldn't want me on their jury.

In the third case, the questioning attorney started out by simply asking if anyone there just didn't want to serve for any reason at all. As no one else immediately responded, after a brief pause I raised my hand and was excused with no questions asked. That case must have been so interesting that I can't even now recall what it was about. Perhaps a traffic ticket or something.

 

[Angel77]

...come dressed like this...

...or act like this guy...

...I shoot the bastard, that's my policy...

You'll get out of jury duty in seconds.

LMAOOOO! Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

 

[shark]

Just loudly mention your support of jury nullification and see how fast they let you go...

Years ago, a 3rd degree homicide. Spent 2 days being ferried around to unused courtrooms with one guy yacking about how we should be told why, and the court staff explaining that they couldn't. We did get an occasional procedural action, like seeing the defendant, seeing if we knew any of the involved parties, approval of the jury pool, etc.


The case was more tragic than anything, no malice involved. A plea was accepted, and we got a judge's explanation of the situation and the court's thanks. Jury fee was $9 a day at the time, plus parking or travel, but you got vouchers in the cafeteria.

Got notices a few other times, but never called in.

 

[cabalist]

Just loudly mention your support of jury nullification and see how fast they let you go...

That's pretty much how I got off the jury for the murder case I mentioned above. While I don't recall the exact wording of the question, I "strongly suggested" to the prosecuting attorney that I wouldn't necessarily find the defendant guilty even if the facts technically supported conviction, but that my own conscience would ultimately be my guide, "depending on the circumstances", regardless of the technical facts of the case. I was dismissed in the proverbial heartbeat.

 

[tcklft]

Yes, on a civil case that took two (count 'em, two) fucking weeks out of my life. At the end none of the jurors gave much of a shit who was at fault (we ruled in favor of the plaintiff); we just wanted the fuck out of there. I'm glad I served--civic duty and all that rot--but I'll be damned if I'll do it again.

 

[cabalist]

Civic duty? What's that? 😉

But having myself once been a defendant in a case in which I didn't even dare trust a jury to make a just decision (a "minor" drug offense with a potential mandatory 20 year sentence was I found guilty of the original charge, rather than "copping a plea", as I chose to do), unless I might feel some important issue was at stake which I might actually feel I was serving an important purpose in helping to resolve, to serve on a jury merely as a "civic duty" might seem tantamount to endorsing the system of injustice.

 

[milagros317]

I'm been called for jury duty over a dozen times. I've actually served on a case twice.

One was a civil case. It was settled on the 8th day of the trial. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed to us, the jury. I was leaning towards the defendant (which was the City of New York).

The other was a criminal case, sale of crack cocaine to an undercover narcotics officer. We convicted the defendant. Although not present at sentencing, I read in the NY Post that he got 4 1/2 to 9 years in Singsing. If that seems harsh, it was his third drug felony conviction (which we did not know during the trial).