Jury duty tomorrow!

[Orrex]

I'm actually eager to participate, but if I wanted to get out of it, what would you recommend that I do?

[TZ]

1. Easy

Just tell them you have a scientific background...Goodness knows nobody on a jury should REALLY understand DNA evidence...:eyes:

[Orrex]

2. Nice!

Do I have to be sworn in? When I ask for something other than a bible, I fear that they might just hang me outright instead of running the scheduled trial.

[TZ]

7. Swear AT them...

They like crazy people..my one jury trial convinced me of that..seriously..I was locked in a jury room with a crazy woo-type for several days --the main witness was a police officer who was on disability for a bad back,-- brick wall feel on him--and the nutjob insisted that no one on disability could be "credible"......:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Orrex]

10. Oh yeah--now I remember!

I hardly knew you back when you posted about that. Weren't there two nurses also on jury duty, neither of whom could convince the woo that he was being a dumbass?

I hope I don't run into anything like that...

[mainegreen]

3. Scream 'GUILTY', strip, and run around the court room naked. n/t

[Orrex]

4. Well, sure. But isn't that your answer for everything?

I was looking for a new tactic.

[mainegreen]

5. I say stick with the tried and true classics!

:D

[AlCzervik]

6. other than an actual hardship---good luck!

i've been called 3 times and served once. the old "Death penalty for all crimes!" stuff doesn't work anymore, at least not here.

[Orrex]

9. I don't really intend to try to get out of it

I mean, it's a pretty low-intensity way of performing a duty of citizenship. But naturally I got to wondering what kind of things I might say to be disqualified if I'd wanted to be.

It's the court of common pleas; I expect that it'll be something exciting like "his dog shits on my lawn" or "her driveway encroaches upon my property."

I'll still push for the death penalty, though; these unrepentant shitters have got to be taught a lesson!

[WinkyDink]

8. I just got mine for July 31st. Feh. BT, DT.

[rug]

11. Tell the judge you don't like the way he's looking at you.

[Frank Cannon]

12. Tell the judge that if George Bush isn't impeached...

then there CAN BE NO JUSTICE in the world.

[madinmaryland]

13. While on jury duty...

The Judge is giving Orrex and the jury their daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Today, there will be three Brazilian nationals on trial."

"OH NO!" Orrex exclaims. "That's terrible!"

The judge and the rest of the panel sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as Orrex sits, head in hands.

Finally, Orrex looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

:hi:

[TZ]

15. Nice one!

:thumbsup:

[FunkyLeprechaun]

14. Good for you!

I got called for jury duty 4 times while I was a student in Massachusetts. The bad thing with each time was the fact I would be home in Minnesota or in the UK on the date they wanted me to come in. IE it was impossible for me to report to jury duty. I used the deferment twice (you can do that) and used a doctor's note to excuse me from it, forever I thought (for the first 3 times). Then I got it once more, during my last year of university (I'd have moved to the UK by the date they wanted me to come in).

Fortunately, I saved all the documentation from my previous jury duty requests and called them to say, "I've already been excused from jury duty."

"Ok, what's the file number?"

"*says file number that I had written on one of the requests*"

"I'm sorry Ma'am I don't have that file number (I nearly called bullshit because I actually had a printout of the conversation as I used a TTY then)"

"Are you sure? I have the conversation here. This happened on this date and the conversation is this...."

She was convinced and let me off Jury Duty.

I know it's a citizen's responsibility to report to jury duty and I had an ironclad excuse not to report to it. If I had it during the school year I would have attended it but the date was always in the summer when I was out of state. It would have been a pain in the arse to fly straight back to MA after just going home for the summer.

This is why I don't think students in university should get jury duty notices. At BU it was more likely that they got an out of state student rather than a local student. When I lived in MN, I never got a jury duty notice due to my deafness although that might have changed since then. My dad did though (they had changed it so doctors, lawyers, and nurses had to report to it).

[Orrex]

16. Allow me to present Alternate #1

I don't know whether to describe my upcoming experience as "The Accidental Jurist" or "Alternate Reality."


Decisions, decisions...

[succubus.blues]

17. Just tell the judge

you don't know if you can be impartial, and that you tend to always believe authority figures. If the police said the person did something bad, then he must have. The defense attny will bounce you off.