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Ever have jury duty?

Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:00 pm
Posted by kjntgr
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2004
8485 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:00 pm
Did u try and get out of it?

Did u like it?


Was it boring?

Any good stories?
Posted by maximum overdrive
DFW
Member since Dec 2015
2205 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:01 pm to
Nah.
Posted by WPBTiger
Parts Unknown
Member since Nov 2011
30972 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:02 pm to
I have been summoned 3 or 4 times. Was on a jury once for a civil case. It wasn't bad, it was only a two day trial. Good break from work and I get paid by work for jury juty.
Posted by CorkSoaker
Member since Oct 2008
9784 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:03 pm to
Twice. Both were slip and fall cases against casinos. Fun to watch.
Posted by Winston Cup
Dallas Cowboys Fan
Member since May 2016
65496 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:05 pm to
quote:

Good break from work and I get paid by work for jury juty.

I go next week. Have a few times before. Never a major trial, usually traffic stuff and dui.
Posted by FearTheFish
Member since Dec 2007
3758 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:06 pm to
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This post was edited on 6/1/17 at 7:36 pm
Posted by LSUMaverick
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2016
1709 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:06 pm to
No
Yes
No, I read a book
I was going to be on a jury for a thug that murdered his pregnant girlfriend. Things got tense when the prosecution and defense attorney started questioning potential jurors how the felt about feticide. It was tense with the defendant sitting in the courtroom while all this was going on. The defendant ended up making a plea deal, so we were let go.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
20886 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:09 pm to
I just told the judge my feelings on jury nullification.

Was promptly dropped.


J/k- in real life I told the judge all of my connections to various members of the bar, DA's office, and LE, and neither side wanted me.
Posted by Lazy But Talented
Member since Aug 2011
14444 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:10 pm to
quote:

Did u try and get out of it?

Did u like it?


Was it boring?

Any good stories?



Tried getting out of it as I had 2 tests that week back in BR. Still got selected. First day of trial I fainted and pissed myself in the jury box. I got dismissed right after.
Posted by Chris4x4gill2
North Alabama
Member since Nov 2008
3092 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:13 pm to
I sat on a Capital Murder case. It lasted two weeks. We ended up finding him guilty of manslaughter and aggravated child abuse. I believe he got 15 years for each charge. I'm sure its been / being appealed.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
32442 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:14 pm to
I was summoned once, and got it delayed due to a work situation. I didn't have to report any of the days that I was assigned after that.

I wouldn't mind being on a jury.
This post was edited on 4/3/17 at 1:16 pm
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98180 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:14 pm to
I have never had jury duty.
Posted by CSATiger
The Battlefield
Member since Aug 2010
6220 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:30 pm to
I've been called in about 6 times. Did not try to avoid.Never picked for the jury, lawyers don't want white male civics teachers
Posted by tylercsbn9
Cypress, TX
Member since Feb 2004
65876 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:35 pm to
Been summoned 4 times.

First two was in college and was excused.

Third time I went but it is a pain because you have to go to downtown Houston. It was a drug case and my view on drugs (ie basically would amount to jury nullification) didn't make any friends with the prosecution.

Fourth time I just check off the box that someone would be left without "adequate" care thus excused.
Posted by PrimeTime Money
Houston, Texas, USA
Member since Nov 2012
27305 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:36 pm to
I got summoned twice in college and got out of it because I was away at college.

I just had jury duty for the first time in September. It wasn't at the main courthouse downtown. It was a justice of the peace court and they settled all of the cases so we all got to go home.

We just sat in the courtroom for a couple hours and some of the cops entertained us with stories. We took a break for 10 minutes, came back and assigned us seating, then the judge talks for a little bit and told us we were all free to go.

We were out by lunch time.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
25455 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:37 pm to
Got summoned the week after I turned 18 in high school. My dad knew the DA and called him so I was excused.
Posted by kjntgr
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2004
8485 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:40 pm to
I thought attorneys were exempt from jury duty
Posted by darnol91
Member since Jun 2015
749 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:40 pm to
I had a professor that was an ex US Attorney out of St Louis. She said the american justice system does not provide you with a jury of your peers, but provides you with a jury of people too stupid to get out of jury duty. Truth. No, I haven't ever been on jury duty.
Posted by bouefbengal
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2005
2320 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:42 pm to
Sat the first day on second day was part of pool for a murder case and was in first group and 14 called up for interviews. Was extremely unnerving sitting across from a defendant taking notes while his lawyer asked very personal questions about your personal life, like where do you work where does your spouse work etc. After several hours was dismissed not because I wasn't chosen but because the judge read the list backwards and
and before they realized the mistake we were on the elevator down.
Posted by PrimeTime Money
Houston, Texas, USA
Member since Nov 2012
27305 posts
Posted on 4/3/17 at 1:43 pm to
quote:

I thought attorneys were exempt from jury duty
They aren't exempt. Not even judges are exempt.

But nobody is going to put a lawyer or judge on a jury so they never actually serve on a jury. But they do get summoned.
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