Jury duty
By clorissa123
@clorissa123 (4926)
United States
May 2, 2009 11:44am CST
A friend of mine will be summoned to jury duty on the next two weeks. He hates to do it, but he got no other choices. He has to show up at court, and wait for the jury selection process. It might be a domestic violence case. My friend just reluctant to go. Is there anyway you can avoid it? what will be the consequence if you don't participate the jury duty as they call? How do they select the persons, one in millions to participate the jury duty?
2 responses
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
5 May 09
I have to do jury duty in October! I have tried to get out of it before! The first two times I just ignored the summons! Last year I tried it again and I was getting phone calls asking where I was! I then contacted the court office and told them I couldn't get off from work! After then I knew I couldn't avoid it again! So I said I could do it this year sometime! So I will be in October! I am not looking forward to this at all! If you don't show up when you say you will, jail time could happen! Selecting people for jury duty is done randomly. If you are a registered voter it is something you'll have to do in your life time!
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
5 May 09
There should be a list of acceptable reasons for not appearing for jury duty on the back of the form but the list is very limited...being the mother of young children...physical illness documented by a physician...things like that. If your friend doesn't show up he could be charged with a crime and arrested. I don't how it works in every jurisdiction but down here in Florida they use the driver's license database to select jurors. An unofficial way to get out of serving on a jury is to indicate that you have prejudices and cannot be unbiased. I think your friend is worrying for nothing though. I've sat on a couple of juries and the trials were pretty routine and mundane.
