fucking Jury Duty
 

I am killing time here while the videos play for my online Jury Orientation so that I can go in two hours later.. I plan to get off by being a Quaker, I can't cast judgment against anyone.. bastards.

jury duty would be a wonder idea if it wasn't compulsory. It is good to be judged by your peers, but if they are coerced into it there is a definite bias and conflict to justice so it is not a very good system. at the same time, if you relied strictly on volunteers then the jury pool would not be representative of the general population and therefore 'peers'

good luck with getting out of it! i dont think i could handle that if i got called up... what else could you say that would mean you couldnt do it? you could pretend you know or recognise the defendant perhaps

last time I told them I have a bias against the court and the police and I do not trust any evidence it presents.. they scratched their head and let me go.. I was prepared to get loud and angry to become a "hostile juror"

if you are assertive enough against service but in full compliance of all the bullshit steps up to the interview, they send you on your way for being polite but antagonizing.

Don't take this the wrong way, but you don't have anything to worry about.

you've been called up twice? is this normal? only one person i know has been called for jury duty

I have absolutely nothing to worry about, I have done this before. It is the inconvenience of it all, it takes hours and even days for me to simply tell the judge and prosecutor that I am in no means interested in this whole thing to be dismissed. I am doing this orientation so that I don't have to go over there at 730am and sit there all damned morning.. hopefully the God smiles on me and the stars align so that though my number has been called once, they do not call me the first day for a jury, if they do not I am automatically dismissed..

"I know this. know all the world besides,
that part of tyranny I do bear,
I can shake off at pleasure.."

I would like to have jury duty at least once for the experience.

I've been called once. Having a mother and sister each be the victim of
separate armed robberies at their places of employment made me an easy
scratch when they were picking the jury for a criminal trial where the
defendant was facing six counts of armed robbery. But then I was chosen
to serve on a civil case, the most fucking boring one imaginable.

I would give the experience a B-.

Yr such a good american.. my experience was only mild and I still gave it a D- if not a full on F!

I nodded off on the bench while a witness was speaking, hence the high
grade. You can't beat serving on a jury and taking a bit of a nap.

I'm helping my lawyer dad photocopy invoices for a civil case.

I might not find civil cases as boring as most.

I just fucking sat in a room. Fuck

And the people who did agree would be more likely to be people who WANT to pass judgement on a person.

I've been called for jury duty only once, but it was such a waste of time. I had to call them really early every day for 3 days to see if I was "needed". Of course I had to go in just in case. Of course I was never "needed".

I got out of jury duty by getting my dad to ring the court to tell them I was too ill to do it.

YEA

LET OUR SOPREME LEADER HAILIE JAKARTAWAM SELLLASSIE JUDGE US ALL

ONLY HE IS DIVINE



SEZ THE POSTER!!!!

If everyone's going to start a thread for every mundane and irksome thing they do, I'm starting a blog about the consistency of my turds.

^ Do it to it, Lars.

I wrote to them telling them I was racist (I'm not at all), I worked 3rd shift so it'd be hard to be there for jury duty (I only work the weekends, so...), and I don't really believe in casting judgement on people (...I just really didn't want to do this bullshit). They never got ahold of me again.

Yeah, they usually don't want to bother with nut jobs.

I've done it before and it's nothing. Once I only had to be on call as an alternate. I've also sat as a jury member in a courts martial when I was an officer in the Air Force. That was better because I was still getting my regular AF wages and the case was entertaining.