re: I was summoned for federal jury duty in New Orleans

Show up with Trump shirt and you can be escorted out - you can thank me later

That young thug rappers trial in Georgia went on for an entire year; imagine being on that jury

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i wouldn't mind serving on a jury. I don't know why people make such a big deal of trying to get out of it.

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Honest question—is there any reason to fear retribution when serving on a jury? Do defendants/their allies have a chance of identifying jury members? This is always in the back of my mind when I am contemplating whether or not I’d be eager to serve on a jury.

RE: Getting out of Federal Grand Jury Duty …..

When I went for Fed jury duty in BR some years back the Judge asked the prospective jurors 3 questions

1. Do you have small children at home ?
2. Do you own your own business ?
3. Are you in any way physically or mentally unable to sit on this jury ?

If you couldn’t answer yes to any of these you were SOL (shite outta luck) and had to hope you weren’t called.

I was the 2nd juror called on an 18 month probe ! Those were the days I tell ya .

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2. Do you own your own business ?

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I saw a federal judge tell a business owner his excuse wasn't good enough and made him stay in the jury pool. His excuse was that no one else knew how to do payroll so his employees wouldn't get paid. The judge told him to do payroll in the evening after jury duty.

Then she turned around and let a woman out of her duty because she was going to miss her daughter's senior year mother/daughter lunch.

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That had to suck for that business owner.

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I saw him a few weeks afterwards at an event where our kids go to school...they made him the foreman

Tell them you are a very objective person and will make a decision based on all the evidence as presented.

Then tell them you have always dreamed about being the one to flip the switch on the electric chair and if they are indeed guilty could they let you be the one to activate the "justice juice"

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If you received it in the regular mail you can ignore it.. Nothing they can do.

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This. They have no proof you even received it if they didn't send it "Registered Mail" and you had to sign for it-------and they are not going through that expense, at least on the local level with N.O. Criminal Courts Jury Duty Summons.

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If you have the judge that I had, he's going to embarrass the shite out of you in front of a couple dozen people if you give a silly excuse.

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And make you stay for the entire selection process.