Jury Duty!
04-07-2010, 02:34 PM
#51
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Aurora, IL
Posts: 77
I've been called in IL, one week in April. I filled out a questionnaire to see if I meet the qualifications. Then I get another letter saying that I must serve with another questionnaire. I'm to be available for a week and call each evening to see if I have to report the next day. Hoping I don't. But it would be an experience. Work has been stressful, so I'm hoping for a long trial. Maybe even being sequestered for it. ;-)
04-08-2010, 01:52 AM
#54
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Merrimac, MA
Posts: 9,019
Originally Posted by Boston1954
Back in Massachusetts, we got a post card saying what day, but to call the night before to see if we really had to go. I got 4 post cards over a period of about 5 years, but only had to go once.
04-08-2010, 11:32 AM
#55
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: currently central new jersey
Posts: 8,623
in nj you call the night before your date, and they tell you whether or not to report for jury duty. you get there and wait forever to see if a judge needs a juror in his jury box. sometimes you sit all day and no one needs a person. sometimes you get called for 1-day 1-trial. the trial can take up to 6 weeks. it pays $5 per day.
doesn't even cover gas money. they ask if you have a medical condition and i had to say i have siezures, the judge actually asked me "what happens when you black out and fall down". i said "i don't know. i black out and fall down." everyone laughed except him and he excused me. i really wanted to stay on that one. a murder. ALLEGED murder. :roll: :mrgreen:
doesn't even cover gas money. they ask if you have a medical condition and i had to say i have siezures, the judge actually asked me "what happens when you black out and fall down". i said "i don't know. i black out and fall down." everyone laughed except him and he excused me. i really wanted to stay on that one. a murder. ALLEGED murder. :roll: :mrgreen:
04-08-2010, 10:14 PM
#56
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Forest Grove,OR
Posts: 6,400
Originally Posted by Charlee
The jury I served on in Montana was actually kind of fun. Montana sends you a letter saying that you might be called during a certain time period...a year I think? During that time period I got a letter telling me to show up on whatever day, didn't have to wait around and wonder if I was busy or not. I went when I was told, and got selected for the jury. The others were a fun bunch, we had a good time together...until it got down to brass tacks, and then we had to get serious.
I'd have done it again in a heartbeat. I was actually kind of excited to have gotten the letter this time too, until I found out how it works...and now the more I think about it the madder I get! I'll be writing some letters to be sure!
I'd have done it again in a heartbeat. I was actually kind of excited to have gotten the letter this time too, until I found out how it works...and now the more I think about it the madder I get! I'll be writing some letters to be sure!
04-09-2010, 08:15 PM
#57
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: SW Iowa
Posts: 32,855
Originally Posted by dakotamaid
One thing about Iowa, if you are an educator, I was, or a daycare provider, I was, you are exempt! SO now that I wear hearing aids I'm also exempt. I really would have liked the experience.
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