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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 9, 2023 21:43:24 GMT -5
Cause you got nothing better going on and it would make a good story
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jan 9, 2023 21:54:03 GMT -5
As someone who has been on a jury for a pretty violent crime, trust me, you really don't.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jan 9, 2023 22:29:30 GMT -5
No one will ever convince me that Jury Duty isn't a wacky and hilarious excursion just as depicted in Ernest Goes To Jail.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Jan 10, 2023 9:16:12 GMT -5
Yeah...pretty gruesome abuse allegations by a 10 year old girl against her stepfather...will leave it at that
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Post by Mid-Carder on Jan 10, 2023 9:28:17 GMT -5
No. It's real people's real lives
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 10, 2023 9:43:41 GMT -5
I have jury duty scheduled for February. If I could trade it to someone I would.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 10, 2023 9:58:59 GMT -5
My wife had to be on a grand jury for a year. Every Thursday. Heard some awful shit as others here have mentioned. It also meant she lost one of her days off for a year. Either that or lose a days pay as the jury didnt pay shit.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 10, 2023 10:08:26 GMT -5
My wife had to be on a grand jury for a year. Every Thursday. Heard some awful shit as others here have mentioned. It also meant she lost one of her days off for a year. Either that or lose a days pay as the jury didnt pay shit. The pay is the thing I’m stressing over the most. I’m not sure what the grand jury pay was. In Massachusetts from what I can tell your employer is supposed to excuse you for the first 3 days then you get $50 for jury duty each day after that. I make some multiple of that at work but that’s largely because of the insane overtime I put in which I can’t do while a juror. MA gives you the option of delaying a year, but I’m more of a rip off the band-aid type. After all if I delayed then I’d just have the same problem next year.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 10, 2023 10:15:58 GMT -5
I've always wanted to do jury duty just to "fulfill my civic duty". Seriously. I'm a big civic duty type of loser.
Not only have I never gotten selected for jury duty, I've never even gotten selected to be in the pool to get selected from. My friends and coworkers are always bitching about it and I'm like "I wanna do it and can't even get in the initial pool." I'm in my 40's so it's not like I haven't had plenty of chances. It's fascinating.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Jan 10, 2023 10:45:38 GMT -5
My favorite time on jury duty was doing 12 angry men.
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El Pollo Guerrera
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 10, 2023 11:13:16 GMT -5
I was asked once, but couldn't afford to miss work. Point turned out to be moot when defendant changed his plea.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 10, 2023 11:33:01 GMT -5
Gotten 2 summons in my 30+ years of being eliable.
First one I got one for where my mailing address was,but I was living 5 states north of there. So they let me out of it.
Second one I got not long after moving back to MS. At the time I was working a home health care job where I couldn't miss any time. Explained that to the lady,and I would have liked a break from that job,and got excused.
If I was free and got summoned would do it.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jan 10, 2023 12:30:07 GMT -5
I've had it once.
Showed up at the courthouse at the time on the summons, only to have the guy running things say they'll start making assignments in 45 minutes to give people a chance to show up.
Once I got my assignment, spent about an hour sitting in a freezing courtroom while the attorneys made their introductions. Judge apologized for the temperature but said it'd been too hot early in the week. Since was during the Summer in Texas I didn't have a jacket or anything and it was miserable.
Ultimately wasn't picked and it ended up wasting several hours of my day, but at least I got a day off from work during the week, and they paid me five bucks!
So no, I don't want jury duty.
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Post by floundertime on Jan 10, 2023 12:40:30 GMT -5
I mean I would if it was for the Scranton strangler
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Post by dirtyoldman on Jan 10, 2023 13:02:36 GMT -5
My wife had to be on a grand jury for a year. Every Thursday. Heard some awful shit as others here have mentioned. It also meant she lost one of her days off for a year. Either that or lose a days pay as the jury didnt pay shit. The pay is the thing I’m stressing over the most. I’m not sure what the grand jury pay was. In Massachusetts from what I can tell your employer is supposed to excuse you for the first 3 days then you get $50 for jury duty each day after that. I make some multiple of that at work but that’s largely because of the insane overtime I put in which I can’t do while a juror. MA gives you the option of delaying a year, but I’m more of a rip off the band-aid type. After all if I delayed then I’d just have the same problem next year. Can't you tell them you're a massive racist? And you don't like gays either? Or firgeiners? But you're quite ok with rich white males? Or does that not work?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 10, 2023 13:29:16 GMT -5
The pay is the thing I’m stressing over the most. I’m not sure what the grand jury pay was. In Massachusetts from what I can tell your employer is supposed to excuse you for the first 3 days then you get $50 for jury duty each day after that. I make some multiple of that at work but that’s largely because of the insane overtime I put in which I can’t do while a juror. MA gives you the option of delaying a year, but I’m more of a rip off the band-aid type. After all if I delayed then I’d just have the same problem next year. Can't you tell them you're a massive racist? And you don't like gays either? Or firgeiners? But you're quite ok with rich white males? Or does that not work? Haha, the joke I’ve been telling people is something along those lines
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Post by edgestar on Jan 10, 2023 16:24:20 GMT -5
I had it once, but they made a plea deal before it went to trial. I have seizures, and got called to go again. When they found that out, I got taken off the list for jury duty.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 10, 2023 16:30:02 GMT -5
Only time I had jury duty and had to serve, I was on a "reserve list" for all 3 days. So basically I stayed home and did nothing for those 3 days and it counted as serving.
Actually serving sounds terrible. Especially if it's a lengthy trial for a violent crime. Like, you want to think the person on trial is scum of the earth just from hearing what they've been indicted for, but you owe them the presumption of innocence.
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J. Hova
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Post by J. Hova on Jan 10, 2023 17:47:24 GMT -5
I've gotten mail twice confirming that all of my contact information was correct from the county clerk, which is usually a precursor to being called, but alas, never called. My dad got called twice when I was a kid and I know one was a pretty brutal murder trial for these parts where they ended up convicting of a lesser charge. I'd be good with never getting called.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Jan 10, 2023 17:55:05 GMT -5
I’ve only been called once, and I was able to get out of it because the date they wanted me to appear was right around the time I was starting my senior year of college. I didn’t even set foot inside the courthouse, just mailed in my excuse letter and that was the end of it.
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