Jury Duty

I don't think you can, because it will always go back to that, in some way, shape or form.

I was picked!!!! I'm free to talk about this as I'm done with my duty. What a boring lawsuit. 3 days of worktime wasted. All I got was $40 plus mileage @ .50. No food like I got 20 years ago, while a juror.

I work for myself. So I git too suck this up! Still a fun process to go through as I've done before. Besides the $76 total, I got a lame certificate. This is 2 services on 3 summons so far, last summons was 8 months ago. After the trial, questioned the judge about being summons again in such short order. Here in IL you could be summons every week. But now I get a year off legally!

My number came up. $9 a day, life is good but will most likely last only one or two days.

gaw wrote:My number came up. $9 a day, life is good but will most likely last only one or two days.

$15 a day here in Maine. Plus a few cents a mile for transportation. I'm scheduled for a trial next week. It's an ugly case, and the judge cautioned us against discussing it with anyone. So I told my wife I am on a dull OUI case, to avoid the extensive advice I might otherwise get.

PA pays mileage and goes up to $25 a day after three days. The usual is 1 day of jury selection and if selected most trials are 1 day. In PA you can then get a pass for the next three years but I don’t think you are prohibited from serving I think it is just a valid excuse.

In CT, you're employer pays you the first two weeks IIRC. After that it's jury pay.

I think I'm on the "do not call list". After I was a jurist in a criminal trial and I decided the law was too stupid to convict a youngster over.

I told the judge so and he got all mad yelling at me.

The I said the magic words, like "Well, its citizens who ultimately decide what the laws are, right? As exampled here, the legislature made a stupid law and we decided not to convict simply because we thought that the law should never have been a law."

More grumbling by judge ... on the list I guess.

Have not been called back....about 10 yrs ago.

This state sucks.

davidmcbeth3 wrote:Then I said the magic words, like "Well, it's citizens who ultimately decide what the laws are, right? As exampled here, the legislature made a stupid law and we decided not to convict simply because we thought that the law should never have been a law."

Didn't the judge tell you that you were only to decide FACTS, with no leeway to apply common sense and second-guess the legislature? Interesting that the rest of the jurors went along with this, though I'm glad they did.

Get a FOP T-shirt from one of your police buddies to wear to jury duty and the defense lawyer will excuse you or maybe a BLM T-shirt and the prosecutor will dismiss you or maybe a judge will have you turn it inside out and threaten to hold you in contempt. Someone needs to try this and report back, inquiring minds want to know.