people try to get out often of stuff

but damn they never KNOW or realize when they lay it TO THICK lol

(Reads through the strips to make sure he didn't miss any.)

Hm. You do realize that "run by" doesn't mean only the blind can staff it? Or that "legally blind" doesn't mean completely incapable of vision?

I am aware, yes. I thought it made for a funny joke but the dozens of people who have attempted to explain that point to me make me think that apparently it wasn't so much.

Oh, it was a good joke. But it's way too easy to want to correct jokes made about certain groups (like the handicapped).

My oh my.

5 to 10 minutes? Really? Lol.

hehe glad I didn't register for this

Ha!
that's too funny...

Am I the only person on earth who was REALLY ANNOYED when their jury duty ended five minutes in and they "got" to go straight home?

I was looking forward to seeing how a trial really worked. But the poor traffic cop they brought in as a witness apparently blew it and said something he didn't, like five seconds into his testimony, and the judge instantly called a mistrial. They never even bothered to explain to us what exactly he did wrong -- I had to hear it from the guy next to me. (It was a particular shame because it was a drunk driving case, and the defendant had multiple previous violations -- one of the times I've felt 100% unbridled sympathy for a cop.)

This was a case where someone apparently broke into another person's home, waved a gun around and pistolwhipped the occupants, demanded money, and held them there. I don't know the details beyond that but I was already rapidly becoming biased about the trial.

For me it's just the fact that I pretty much work nights and would have had to have gotten up bright eyed and bushy tailed at around the time I'm dead asleep. Bleaugrghle.

I'm with Bering. I really don't understand why people are so against it. You want all the benefits of citizenship in a democracy, but you don't want to stump up and do your civic duty once in a while?

Last time I was called in for jury duty, we had one that was similar but, to my mind, even more bizarre. When the question came up whether anything would keep her from serving on the jury, she didn't say anything then. Then she as one of the people called up as a potential juror. Most people you could get through the questioning in about half an hour or so. We spent almost an entire day on her. She claimed she ran to snap judgments and that once she made up her mind, even facts couldn't get her to change it--but she would still "try" to be impartial. She'd had bad experiences with the police. Her brother-in-law had been involved in a similar incident recently where he'd been (she claimed) wrongly accused. The attorneys would keep coming back to, "Do you think you could be fair and impartial?" Oh, of course she thinks she could. Except this, and that, and the other. After a good several hours of this, I wanted to stand up and say, "Excuse me, Your Honor, can we please just dismiss juror number <number> and get on with this? It's obvious she's trying very hard, and I really don't want to see that level of effort wasted."

I think it'd be neat as a criminal justice major to experience first hand a jury trial.

One of the people on the potential juror list was a lawyer himself! He was interested because he wanted to see what it was like to be 'on the other side'. Unfortunately he also had a very important client on the day of the trial and couldn't reschedule so he wasn't chosen.

I loved watching you type out that paragraph. My favorite part was the laughs around "And my guild is doing a raid and I'm the main healer..." 8)

XD LOL this far too familiar to me

Heh. My answer would be very simple: "I have a condition that requires me to use a bathroom 15-20 times a day. I am willing to serve if accommodations can be made, but I'd think having me there would be highly disruptive to the flow of a trial."

Already got me excused from one summons - they didn't even call me in!

I was almost chosen for jury duty once I even sat in the juror's box, but when I got asked that exact question I mentioned I had ADHD, the lawyer asked me "How are you even paying attention right now?" I answered truthfully that i wasn't and it got me off the trail XD

We didn't have someone like that in our jury panel, though I felt like I spent way too long on "What affiliations with law enforcement do you have?".... I know too many people in law enforcement....

I got called, but never served...which meant I spent the better part of a day being shuffled around the courthouse, managing to finish a 5-600 page book in the process. Was boring as hell, especially when I tried using the restroom at one point, only to get told to go back into the courtroom (Was a potential replacement juror) by a baliff.

Seats were not very comfy.

My experience exactly with jury duty. The judge was hilarious, though - after he'd torn strips off one or two people with feeble excuses, he got to the next guy, who just said, 'on second thoughts, I'm good!' and sat down

I don't get why people make such a big deal about avoiding jury service. Not only do I find it really interesting, it's your civic duty, people.

All you have to do is say that your favorite show is "Cops."

IF you really need to avoid the jury duty, come in wearing a tshirt from the Fully Informed Jury Association, with a handful of FIJA flyers to hand out to your fellow potential jurors. They will hustle you out of the selection process at the first opportunity. Alternatively, if the person involved is some sort of petty criminal, say something along the lines of 'He looks like the guy who mugged a friend of mine.' or 'sold drugs in my neighborhood' or whatever.

I've gotten the postcard for jury duty a bunch of times. The first time I was in the navy on a ship, they excused me when I mailed back the postcard. The next couple times, I never had to show up at the courthouse for various reasons, such as blizzard, or just didn't need that many folks that day.

Then I got summoned for grand jury. I had to fly back home in the middle of working a tradeshow and spent a day in the courthouse. The same day they were selecting the jury for a very high profile murder case, so had to run the gauntlet of reporters and protesters to get there. they got enough folks for the grand jury before it was my turn to be questioned.
But it was interesting watching the questioning. One of the people selected for the jury was a retired criminal court judge. They had to select a large number of alternates, since in Mass, the grand jury sits for three months and many drop out over that time. If I had been selected, it would have sucked, since I was temping then, and the agency wasn't gonna pay me for jury duty longer than the three days mandated by law. So I would have had to live on fifty bucks per day, before taxes, for three months, then have to look for a new job.

Went a couple more times since, never even made it far enough in the selection process that I left the jury waiting room. I expect to be called a few more times. Here in mass, the selection pool is based on voter registration lists.

I remember someone on a comedy show said you just have to say this:

"I'm predjudiced against peoples of all races and religions." :D

I got to speak to the judge when I got picked. Jury was scheduled for Wednesday - Friday. I was flying to New Zealand the following Monday. I didn't want it to run over, but the judge checked with the two lawyers who were "confident" we could be done in time, plus we had two spares, so in I went.

I would have hated to have been one of the spares. A 12 person jury, the pick 14 who spend the time listening to all the evidence, arguement and statements, then just before the jury goes in to deliberate, they pick 12 out of the 14, the other two literally get told "Thanks for your time" and are shown out while the rest go in and deliberate.

I was speaking to a guy in the jury room. His trial was a big financial thing, He was in his last week of what had been a three month trial. They had picked 24 jury members and were down to 16 (mainly through people being sick). I would scream if I was one of the 4 not picked. What did I just spend the last 3 months of my life doing???

Did he get excused?

She wasn't picked, no. The people who ended up on the jury all wanted to be, I think.

Ok good

I almost got tapped for jury duty. Someone in the group tried to play the "Only God can pass judgement!" card. I don't know how far she got with that.