Jury Duty Summons to Appear
By CarolDM
@CarolDM (203452)
Nashville, Tennessee
May 2, 2021 4:25pm CST
A few weeks ago I receive paperwork to appear for jury duty tomorrow. The main reason I got my COVID vaccines.
Hopefully I will not be picked for the jury. It usually involves sitting a few hours as the attorneys asks each person questions and then they decide who is picked for the final jury.
I have always been sent home early. That is a very good thing. I do not want to get picked for a trial. Fingers crossed they do not choose me for a juror.
Have you ever been picked a juror on a trial?
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33 responses
@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
2 May 21
No I never have and hope I never will be
I know very well how the court system works here and quite often a jury is not told all of the facts.
If I got picked I'd do what I could to be disqualified.
I know very well how the court system works here and quite often a jury is not told all of the facts.
If I got picked I'd do what I could to be disqualified.5 people like this
@Prabhatsingh (3537)
• India
2 May 21
We don't have that system in here.
But it does sound interesting.
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@Prabhatsingh (3537)
• India
2 May 21
@CarolDM
But doesn't they make you hear about the case?
What happened and what not.
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
2 May 21
@Prabhatsingh Yes, you are part of who decides the verdict or outcome in the trial. But it can go on for days and sometimes weeks. If I knew for sure it was a short trial, I wouldn't mind. But you don't know ahead of time.
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@snowy22315 (170015)
• United States
2 May 21
Yes, once. After listening to the trial all day though they settled before we deliberated. It was kind of disappointing actually. In the elevator on the way down we were all talking about how we would have voted.
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@snowy22315 (170015)
• United States
2 May 21
@CarolDM I would be the opposite. I would want to get picked, however, I know the vast majority of people are like you.
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
2 May 21
@snowy22315 The reason I say that is it would be my luck to get on a long drawn out boring trial for weeks. If it was like a Dateline or 48 hours show I would feel different.
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@much2say (53958)
• Los Angeles, California
2 May 21
I have never been picked. I have been excused most times . . . and then a couple times made it to orientation but everyone was let go afterwards. Last year I was summoned, but excused and rescheduled for January. So I did the online check-in each day - and ultimately didn't have to go in. Fingers crossed for you!!
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@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
3 May 21
Yes but it was cancelled..strange.
Hope you dont have to go.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
2 May 21
I got a summons a few years ago. In the paperwork I received it said to check each day on their site to be sure I needed to go in. I never had to. *shrug*
I was told that all you have to do to get out of jury duty is to tell them you hate whatever group of people the person the jury is supposed to be convened for belongs to. I don't know if that's true or not.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
3 May 21
@CarolDM I wouldn't do it, either. I was just happy I didn't have to go.
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@DocAndersen (54411)
• United States
3 May 21
i lived in Indiana and Ohio for many years. NEVER GOT CALLED!!!!
Been in Maryland 10 years in August.
Have already been called twice, and rejected twice for a jury!
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
3 May 21
@DocAndersem You were lucky in the other states. Back home now.
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@DocAndersen (54411)
• United States
3 May 21
@vandana7 in both cases the defence attorney dismissed me. i didn't fit the profile they wanted
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
3 May 21
Well reaching this post means I am.3 hours into the posts for the 24 hours previously.
I wouldn't like to be on a Jury.
Luckily it has never happened.
I hope you don't get picked Carol.
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
3 May 21
@JimBo452020 Opening os many tabs will slow down your internet. I think you may know that.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
3 May 21
@CarolDM
Oh I know
Your other post is sitting in the queue.
I reckon it's about last in the line of posts to answer as I opened the.tabs some hours ago.
I do this a strange way Carol.
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@HomewardBound (551)
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2 May 21
I was recently picked for what I assume was a jury pool in federal court. I requested and received an exemption because it was an hour away and I don’t have a reliable vehicle.
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@betlynfrnds (4066)
• United States
3 May 21
To the best of my knowledge, I reported twice. The last time being a couple of years ago. I was not picked, thank goodness.
I hope the same for you.
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@LeaPea2417 (36451)
• Toccoa, Georgia
3 May 21
Yes I have served on a Jury and a Grand Jury.
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@LeaPea2417 (36451)
• Toccoa, Georgia
4 May 21
@CarolDM Yes, I did learn a lot when I did that.
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@Deepizzaguy (94580)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
2 May 21
I have been summoned a few times for jury duty but not selected to serve in an actual trial in both Jefferson and Calcasieu Parishes.
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@Deepizzaguy (94580)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
3 May 21
@CarolDM The last time I was summoned for jury duty, the hostess said that there were no cases on that day which is a relief,
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
3 May 21
@Deepizzaguy That is a relief.
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@Hannihar (129481)
• Israel
3 May 21
@CarolDM
I would think because people are not supposed to be sitting close to one another that they would not have a jury trial. So that would mean that you have to wear your mask while sitting there and listening and not having a good time wearing a mask to really listen? I hope you can go home again and do not have to sit there. I have never done jury duty and now I live too far away I would not go on a plane right now or go back to do it.
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@LindaOHio (156271)
• United States
3 May 21
Yes, I have. It was for a child abuse case; and it only lasted 1/2 day.
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