Jury duty question (license, ideas, the best, accident)

[movingtohouston]

Sorry for that....what gets me is that I haven't even lived here a year yet and they called me already. Its crazy. This is the second time I've been called. Once I was called for Ohio and we had just moved to Ca. so I got out of that too. My husband hasn't been called once. So not fair.

[dynimagelv]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

I’d go to jury duty if Judge Judy was there! lol She’s my hero

Marilyn Miliani's cuter

[brokencrayola]

Maybe different states are different but I have not voted in many many years and yet still have gotten several notices over those years.

[desertsun41]

Do what I do. I have not registered to vote in my 40 something years I was eligible to. I have never been called. I simply exercised my constitutional right NOT to vote for any of those crooked clowns.

Now when they bring the monkey face dictator (the decider as he calls himself) to trial for the war crimes he committed I will volunteer to be the jury Foreman.

[kittytoes2006]

Best just to go and get it over with. I had to go once. It was for a guy who had carjacked someone. I, myself, had just been carjacked 4 months earlier and I just told them I really didn't feel I would be able to be an unbiased juror in a case like this. The defendant was in the courtroom during the jury selection process as well as the prosecuting attorney and defense attorney. That prosecuting attorney was literally rude to me.

I am like one of the other posters though...I've never heard of anyone not showing up for jury duty and being punished, but that's not to say they don't get some kind of fine or something.

[SexyBrownEyes]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

Do what I do. I have not registered to vote in my 40 something years I was eligible to. I have never been called. I simply exercised my constitutional right NOT to vote for any of those crooked clowns.

Now when they bring the monkey face dictator (the decider as he calls himself) to trial for the war crimes he committed I will volunteer to be the jury Foreman.

Well they don't go by voter ID anymore in most states, they are starting to switch over to driver's licenses for the jury pool.

[desertsun41]

I just dont believe in it. Why should I sit there for $6.00 a day pay and the free provided lunch which I'm sure is meat ( I dont eat meat) while all the Judges, Lawyers, Bailiffs, and all the other staff are getting their normal massive salaries?

Nothing in life is fair but this scenario seems a tad lopsided doesn't it?

For the many who say they go and claim to be very prejudice and could not be fair, that is no longer excepted anymore. At least in my state. Not long ago cops, firemen, and teachers were automatically exempt. No more.

I just pray I'm never called.

What ever happened to the idea of professional paid juries?

[Marlow]

I just dont believe in it. Why should I sit there for $6.00 a day pay and the free provided lunch which I'm sure is meat ( I dont eat meat) while all the Judges, Lawyers, Bailiffs, and all the other staff are getting their normal massive salaries?

You should sit there because you enjoy the privilege of living in what is still a free country. Being judged by a jury of your peers, rather than paid professionals, is one of the greatest rights provided to Americans under the Constitution.

Ask the British teacher in the Sudan who has been sentenced to jail time for letting the 7-year-olds in her class name a bear Mohammed why you should go.

[DC at the Ridge]

Where I live when you are called you're on jury duty for three months. You have to call each day to see if you have to go in to the courthouse or not. When you receive the summons in the mail, you have to call to confirm you've received it. If you don't call, they call you and charge you for the deputy's time who tracked you down. If you don't show up, they will send an officer to escort you in. There are virtually no excuses accepted, though they will try to work around vacations and other prior commitments. I've been called to jury duty 5 times, for the municipal, the county and the federal courts. The municipal and county reimburse you your mileage and $5.00 per day. My mother was on jury duty last summer (she's retired, so she loved it) and there was a girl there that earned her living babysitting and staying at home with her own two kids. She didn't have any family to help her out, didn't have anyone she could leave her kids with, but the judge would not release her. So all the potential jurors got together and passed the hat so that she could pay a daycare whenever she was called.

Though I've served jury duty five times, I've only been called for three trials, and one I got dismissed from when I realized I knew the defendant, and the other two pled out at the last minute. I've had to fill out questionaires several times for capital trials, that's always interesting. Since I oppose capital punishment, I know I'll never get called for those.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by mjb68

Well they don't go by voter ID anymore in most states, they are starting to switch over to driver's licenses for the jury pool.

That's how it's done here, it doesn't matter if you're registered to vote