Jury Duty

[sneaky_flute]

I started getting them as soon as I turned 18 about a year before I registered to vote. I think a list of potential jurors is compiled from the dmv and other registries.

[Adam]

I think it used to be only from the registered voter list. Nowadays, I think they draw from the DMV list of registered drivers as well.

[katie]

I got one in college and then they couldn't find me until I registered to vote in SD.

[Schildog]

I would love to get a Jury summons and be a jurror on a case.

 

you'll be doodling all day long on the notepad the court provides you. most boring week of my life.

[Salome]

I received one last week that said because I had ignored their other requests that if I didn't show up there would be a warrant issued. I live in the mountains and our mailbox is on a street corner 2 blocks from my house. I don't have anything that is important sent there. I agree that if they don't send them registered they have to prove that you received it. I believe that the info is garnered from the DMV.

[Blarg]

So they're releasing people early and reconfiguring a lot of jails to support the prison population (which isn't going away any tine soon since prison is a multibillion dollar industry) but they are going to make sure people that don't go to jury duty have a place? The state can never prove you got a non-certified piece of mail.

 

Just ribbing you B, but if ever a summons comes in for Grand Jury do not treat it like a lower court. Those guys have no sense of humor and I witnessed two bench warrants issued for those that didn't respond.

 

The judge even issued a warrant to a person on our jury that didn't show up after the 16th day of service and the only reason he wasn't arrested and dragged in front of the judge was because he was hospitalized from a car accident. The sheriffs visited him in intensive care to verify he was not capable of serving.

[Blarg]

I think it used to be only from the registered voter list. Nowadays, I think they draw from the DMV list of registered drivers as well.

Cool, now illegal aliens will be able to on juries to convict criminals.

[Brandon]

I know dude, I used your quote to make an opinion on the matter as a whole.

I started to write the illegal joke as well but retracted it. Well done.

[stevestevens]

When I was on an lds church mission I was summoned to Sacramento for the big show. I had to fill out an absentee. While I was out of state at college I was summoned every year and replied that i was out of state. Upon graduating from college I became a resident of Utah and for the last 11 years I have not been summoned once.

[gotbeer]

Just ribbing you B, but if ever a summons comes in for Grand Jury do not treat it like a lower court. Those guys have no sense of humor and I witnessed two bench warrants issued for those that didn't respond.

 

The judge even issued a warrant to a person on our jury that didn't show up after the 16th day of service and the only reason he wasn't arrested and dragged in front of the judge was because he was hospitalized from a car accident. The sheriffs visited him in intensive care to verify he was not capable of serving.

 

Actually, saw that happen in the lower courts also.  A chick decided she didn't want to show up for the second day.  So the judge issued a bench warrant.  Doesn't help when she says to a bunch of people I'm not showing up.  

[CaliAngel]

Cool, now illegal aliens will be able to on juries to convict criminals.

I suspect the people that were cool with giving out licences to illegal aliens in the first place are totally cool with this happening as well. This is quite a country we're shaping for ourselves.

[fan_since79]

One time I got called and was sent to the Compton courthouse, where on my lunch break on the patio (big mistake to go outside for lunch), two gang members almost got into it nearby. Shouting, flashing signs at each other, the whole show. For some reason there were no sheriff's deputies to be seen, when a few moments earlier there had been several walking around. 

 

Another occasion, two weeks after I served at the Long Beach courthouse, a summons came for Federal grand jury in L.A. Six months, one day a week.

I got out of that, of course. Since then, no summons for the past four years.

 

I can't imagine anyone serving on a grand jury unless they're retired or long-term unemployed.

 

 

 

 

 

[arch stanton]

If I was in charge I would take refusal to serve jury duty as an automatic waiver of your right to a jury trial.

[Blarg]

Most long term grand juries are retired people that volunteer. I was summoned for a 30 day grand jury and it was guaranteed it would be only 30 days. There were over 110 people summoned for that session, of those half were released on a blind draw.

 

The next was a random number selection of potential jurors and of those left I was called 5th. No excuse other than being a member of the court, law enforcement or active military duty was approved. I ended up then being picked as the jury foreman by the Grand jury Advisor.  

 

I can't imagine anyone serving on a grand jury unless they're retired or long-term unemployed.

[katie]

I am able to use the FDA to get out of a long case

[mp170.6]

One time during jury selection, I watched a judge cite somebody for contempt as she pretended not to know the English language. 

 

That was really funny to watch. 

[mp170.6]

I am able to use the FDA to get out of a long case

 

How?

[katie]

It's a secret.

[mp170.6]

Is it because you're a breastfeeding mom, and your kid would be malnourished if you served on a long case? 

[katie]

Sure!

[Tank]

Does anyone know how we get on the jury duty lists to being with?

 

Last I heard it was when you register to vote.

 

If I knew then what I know now I would have gladly refused to register to vote in order to never have to do jury duty again.

We gladly thank you for your patriotism.

Signed,

Revolutionary War minutemen

[mp170.6]

Sure!

 

LOL

 

CONFIRMED!

Edited October 23, 2013 by mp170.6

[Ray McKigney]

You can throw it away and they can't do anything about it. They have zero proof that you ever received it or read it. 

[mp170.6]

You can throw it away and they can't do anything about it. They have zero proof that you ever received it or read it. 

 

The government has gotten away with not using certified mail since the pony express days.  I wouldn't test them. 

[Brandon]

I've tested them for close to 15 years.