Tuesday Check-in - Jury Duty & Shoutouts

[lekidecincinnati]

it would be fun to be on a small trial that last a day, can't imagine those people who have to stay in hotels and trial last for months ughh

 

[lemartinsports]

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it would be fun to be on a small trial that last a day, can't imagine those people who have to stay in hotels and trial last for months ughh

I couldn’t imagine being involved in a trial that long….

 

[Leisure]

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Great ! Nothing more boring than jury duty .

 

[Archie]

way to show up for your civic duty!

never had the chance. 3x in Chicago I got mail notice to maybe serve. but then day before you call a hotline and see if the people with the last name starting with your letter even have to show up .

I never even got to go

 

[Pimike]

Lol

i got called to jury duty and was selected for questioning of sitting on a civil case.

They asked if I could be fair in my decision.

I said of course!! However this case we are talking about me sitting on is one of my cases and I will be testifying in it.

lol

What’s the chances of that happening?? but it did.

Of course they dismissed me.

 

[Pimike]

Lots and lots of orientation videos lol now is the waiting game

Hope you get selected.

it’s actually a good experience. It’s needed.

 

[Pimike]

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I couldn’t imagine being involved in a trial that long….

Ok

you are now done for a while.

lol

 

[BobbyFK]

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Awesome!

 

[samsncharge99]

Good for 7 years now right?

 

[lemartinsports]

way to show up for your civic duty!

never had the chance. 3x in Chicago I got mail notice to maybe serve. but then day before you call a hotline and see if the people with the last name starting with your letter even have to show up .

I never even got to go

see i feel like calling in and seeing if you have to go or not is a much better system than what i just did. so many people's wasted time sitting in there just waiting around tbh. if im going to go, i want to sit in a trial

 

[lemartinsports]

Ok

you are now done for a while.

lol

Good for 7 years now right?

one year!

 

[Tanko]

So many people stopped going to jury duty in our area, that they now randomly pick names from those who fail to show and send Sheriff's office out to their house/residence with a citation to appear in court. It's only a handful getting cited but its to send a message to the public. They report it on the news.

Worst part is sometimes the people they cite, would have qualified for exemption (disabled, etc...). That doesn't go over well.

 

[BobbyFK]

So many people stopped going to jury duty in our area, that they now randomly pick names from those who fail to show and send Sheriff's office out to their house/residence with a citation to appear in court. It's only a handful getting cited but its to send a message to the public. They report it on the news.

Worst part is sometimes the people they cite, would have qualified for exemption (disabled, etc...). That doesn't go over well.

If they got an exemption it shouldn't be a failure to show so they shouldn't get a citation

 

[samsncharge99]

one year!

what!?!?!?! 1 year? Because you were dismissed?

 

[Tanko]

If they got an exemption it shouldn't be a failure to show so they shouldn't get a citation

The one news report they talked about this occurring was a person who said something like, "I have an exemption so I didn't show up and didn't think I needed send anything back in to the court."

They did not return the paperwork indicating they had an exemption.
Dumb people.....

 

[Tanko]

If you ever do have to serve in Texas, hope its a big a$$ case, like some major felony. Once you serve on something like that you get 3 years exemption.

 

[BobbyFK]

The one news report they talked about this occurring was a person who said something like, "I have an exemption so I didn't show up and didn't think I needed send anything back in to the court."

They did not return the paperwork indicating they had an exemption.
Dumb people.....

How stupid. Like the court is supposed to know that...

 

[Tanko]

How stupid. Like the court is supposed to know that...

Exactly...

It actually became a thing here to miss jury duty. If someone at work said, I've been called for jury duty, people would ask, why are you going.... It was getting out of hand.

They had to call hundreds of people just to get 50 to show up to pick from. A lot of defending attorneys would ask for jury trial with the hope there wouldn't be people to pick from and ask for the case to be dismissed. They did this even on cases there was no hope of winning.

For those times that enough people did showed up for jury duty, the defending attorney would then do a quick plea bargain before the trial even began because they knew they'd be found guilty and jury was sent home.

The system became broken.

 

[MinnesotaFats]

 

[lemartinsports]

what!?!?!?! 1 year? Because you were dismissed?

idk if it was because i was dismissed, but they said 1 year