Jury duty...do you love or hate it????

[kered]

uh isn't that illegal????

In my state you are suppose to be served the jury petition by the sheriff and he gets so much money per summons. Now they just mail it to you and he gets the same money. I believe the law states that he has to place the summons in your hand for it to be legal. Or it use to be that way.

 

[isabeau]

In my state you are suppose to be served the jury petition by the sheriff and he gets so much money per summons. Now they just mail it to you and he gets the same money. I believe the law states that he has to place the summons in your hand for it to be legal. Or it use to be that way.

hmm that sounds more like a subpoena...anyway, here on the day you are summoned..if you don't show up, the judge sends the sheriff to wherever you are and makes you come..i don't think you are arrested, but i'm not sure..

 

[bass]

ive been called twice for it.. gotten out of it twice
the first time, is not a good reason, but my mom was still alive and in the hospital, but we were meeting with the doctors to decide to pull the plug, so i told the judge that and she let me go..
the second time, i was called in seminole county where i used to live, but recently moved to orange county, so i got out of it again..

and they said i may be called in orange county, but i live in seminole county again 🙂

so i guess you could say.. i have no opinion.. but im sure if i had to go through with it, i would loathe it

 

[kered]

hmm that sounds more like a subpoena...anyway, here on the day you are summoned..if you don't show up, the judge sends the sheriff to wherever you are and makes you come..i don't think you are arrested, but i'm not sure..

They use to have to hand you a subpoena then. And in this state you are subject to being called to as many jury selections as they wish for a two month period whether you get picked or not. Judges also have the power to send the sheriff outside the courthouse and grab any poor passerby off the street if the jury pool is getting low for a case that day. They don't do this any more but the statute is still on the books, I think.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

I would love to serve on a jury, but so far I haven't been called. I'm young, I still have a chance to be called. 😀

My mom was just recently called up for jury duty, last month to serve sometime in January. But she's gotten out of it because she got a written note from her doctor explaining she couldn't serve because of her migraines. My mom suffers from migraines and she never knows when one will develop. No one can serve on a jury if they have a migraine. Just not possible.
This is the second time she's been called. The first time she was called, my brothers and I were little. She tried to get out of that, telling them she had young children to care for, but they didn't care. They basically told her to get a babysitter and serve.

My dad has been taken off the list because of his back problems.

As far as I know, in Minnesota, they draw from both license and voter's registry. So if you don't have a license and are not a registered voter, you'll never be called. 😀

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

I like jury duty, and I get paid while I serve, but I believe in the system and am always fair and impartial......right before I send the creeps where they belong!

 

[isabeau]

I like jury duty, and I get paid while I serve, but I believe in the system and am always fair and impartial......right before I send the creeps where they belong!

hmm so you always find them guilty? that reminds me of a court case courttv was covering..a cop accused of killing a man, who happened to be blind. i went into the trial believing the cop was guilty, but listening to the unfolding testimony, i changed my mind..and he was acquited..i don't remember the exact happenings in that situation however..

my husband's company also pays during jury duty..

 

[Knox The Hatter]

With the money they pay for Jury Duty, you don't even get enough to buy a red beans and rice side at Popeye's.

 

[Capnmad]

I've never had to stay for jury duty...

At jury selection, I go in whistling the title track to the Clint Eastwood film, "Hang 'Em High", and they never seem to pick me... I don't know why... 🙁