Jury Duty: What to Expect?

hope your phone is charged. Whole lot of sitting and waiting on the first day usually

It's at the new court house downtown.

Br District court

Expect a lot of boredom. You sit and wait, you watch some videos, then you wait, then people have a chance to be deferred if they can make up a good enough excuse, then you wait some more until they start calling up names. In some instances, cases can be cancelled or rescheduled, so they end up letting a lot of people go home.

I reported to jury duty a couple of months and sat there until after lunch. I was one of the lucky who they let go.

I had my class schedule and work schedule on official documents and was the first to get up when the Judge asked if anyone has conflicts

Was estimated to be a 1 week or more thing

There's absolutely no way to know

Good luck

You could always pay someone at the courthouse to tell you the defendants name. When he walks in..act all surprised.."HEY JERRY!! What are you doing in here?!?"

Thanks brother, at least I'll finish up some books.

They may or may not let you bring a tablet. Maybe bring a briefcase or something to carry it in

Nope, they have people with ipads in here. But there are about 2-300 people here.

I haven't been called since I was on a jury for a guy who was charged with kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of a girl living in the apartments beside the I-12 Drusilla overpass. She was from Gonzales. There was also a kidnapping, and attempted rape of her room mate but the state only went after the rape charge of the first woman since the sentence was life. Had they failed there were the other charges that they would have gone after. Jury selection took a full week, and the trial lasted 2 more weeks. There were 100 people in the jury pool, and I wasn't selected until the last day of jury selection.