Stuck in jury duty

I have to call in the entire month of May to see if I am selected. I got a notice last week.

Ive been on a couple juries before, they'll cause you to lose some faith in humanity.

I was selected and sat there all day until my case plead guilty at 4:45.

Sorry, no interesting story. If you do have to sit, please pay attention. Be the juror you wish you’d have.

send em to jail

A great way to get dismissed would be to post all about the case and what your thoughts on it are. Go for it.

Where do you live?

Jefferson Parish is awesome...

One day one trial. If you're not selected for a trial, then you're done. No calling for a week or month. You're done.

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A great way to get dismissed would be to post all about the case and what your thoughts on it are. Go for it.

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What happens more often is that some dipshit juror ignores the judge's instructions and posts about the case on social media while it is underway.

When the posts are discovered after the trial, the whole thing often ends up being thrown out, meaning the dipshit wasted the time of everyone at the first trial and required a second bunch of jurors to come in and try to do it correctly. Don't be the dipshit.

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Last one was attempted murder.

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Trey Holly??

I was. Actually served as Foreman.

We tried a guy who robbed a convenience store at gunpoint. threatened to kill several kids and an old man during the robbery. He struck the old guy with his gun and knocked him to the floor.

As he did that, the PoPos pulled up, having been called by a silent alarm the behind the counter guy activated when they guy showed the gun as he walked into the place. The old guy then jerked the robber's feet out from under him and held him on the floor until the PoPos made it inside to arrest him.

In court, the guy testified he had been high on cocaine for several days and was just trying to get some money to buy more. He had no idea where he got the gun, which had been filed clean of serial numbers. He then said if they said he did it, he must have. He said he had no memory of doing it, that his first memory was waking up in jail and finding a small quantity of cocaine he had placed in a pack in his shoe, which he did in jail. He said the video tapes certainly looked like him.

Took us maybe 10 minutes to convict him. One of the guys on the jury was a Little Debby truck driver, and after we found the robber guilty, we all had a Little Debby snack cake from the bag of stuff the truck driver brought with him. That took maybe thirty minutes and then we went back to announce our guilty verdict.

The guy got thirty years at Parchman Prison. IT was a while back and the robber might be back out on the streets by now.

Knock on the wood…

I’m 47 and have never been notified of jury duty!

Done it here 3 times in the 19th here in EBR.

I am NOT doing it a fourth time.