re: How many of you have been called for jury duty and/or served on a jury?

Been called but was settled or let go each time. Id love to serve on one though.

Called for 3 , one was for 18 month Federal Grand Jury Probe. That was interesting. It was once or twice a week and We wrapped up in about 12 months, then sworn to secrecy. Called for a petit (sp?) jury It was about a cattle rustling case. Settled the night before having to serve on the jury.
The 3rd time was for a capitol murder case. By then I’d had enough of jury duty. (I was under 30 years old). I decided I didn’t believe in a defendant pleading the 5th and haven’t been called in over 30 years. BTW I do believe in the right to plead the fifth.

I had jury duty 3 times. Picked for a trial once.

I voted the guy out but he had an immunity idol.

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Never been called. I have an engineering degree so I probably never will.

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Called twice. Selected twice.

Was hoping this would disqualify me, but was never asked if I was an engineer.

FWIW my dad was a prosecutor for 25 years and nobody ever threatened him. It happens but it's rare.

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Sounds like the defense lawyer fumbled the ball, engineers are usually the first to go.

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That would have been me. If I fumbled the ball I fumbled it into the endzone and recovered it. Acquittal.

It started the career of being known for picking unconventional juries. The judge in that first case knew it was my first trial and did give me a furrowed brow when seating the engineer. My partners say it is because I am a gambler and think I believe I can convince anyone in a jury box of anything in reality I just see people as multi-dimensional. Hell, I picked a doctor for a med mal case arguing for the plaintiff. I have been doing it so long that I can now get the other side to use their strikes on great jurors for them just because they think I want them. When the facts are truly with you jurors that can understand the facts are generally good for your side as long as they have good character. A lot of attorneys still pick juries using formulas from 50 years ago.

I’ve been called twice but never served. Probably never will given my background.

Called for jury duty probably 3-4 times.

Never served on a jury, with the closest I have come being in federal court on a drug case where they picked jurors and I was about 5-10 people past where they stopped picking.


Most times, they call you to come sit in the jury room for a few hours then dismiss you.

At least once, they told everyone there would be long trials going on that week so they gave them the option to reschedule. Once they finished rescheduling everyone who volunteered, I got called to go ahead and leave for the week.

Sat on a retrial for a death penalty case. Only reason there was a retrial is the judge couldn't keep his mouth shut and the defendant won a retrial on appeal.

We convicted (again) and sentenced him to life without parole. Too many unknowns to vote for lethal injection.

I recommend running the hell away if you find out it's a death penalty trial. The stress is off the charts.