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Anyone ever ignore their jury summons?

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Juree Summun

  • I don't ignore the summons

  • I do ignore the summons

  • I've never received a summons

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I've received 3 or 4 of them but have never been called or even show up. Like someone else says above, you call in to see where your number falls and the only inconvenience was having to call every evening for a week or so. No biggie for me, I get paid for it through my work anyway.
 
No option for having both ignored and responded?

I threw the first couple away while I was in college but responded once I was working. I think it said that if I didn't respond then they would send out a summons or something like that. I still get my salary pay while on jury duty so I didn't have an issue with it the last time.
 
loki8481 said:
no fine, no arrest warrant, but I wouldn't have done it unless it was like absolutely necessary.
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You left out the key word: YET.

There is probably a notice in the system, the fact that they didn't send somebody to your door to haul you away in cuffs means nothing. The next time you do show up, or you get pulled over for a traffic ticket, have some lube handy because you'll be getting reamed.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
You left out the key word: YET.

There is probably a notice in the system, the fact that they didn't send somebody to your door to haul you away in cuffs means nothing. The next time you do show up, or you get pulled over for a traffic ticket, have some lube handy because you'll be getting reamed.
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this was like 5 years ago.

in the time since, I've renewed my driver's license, renewed my car's registration, voted multiple times, and been pulled over by the police on 2 separate incidents. no arrest warrant.
 
I’ve been summoned twice, once right after college in 96 and once about 5 years ago. I went to the one in 96. I sat there in a room with a bunch of other people like cattle and they never even called me up to the stand to be interviewed. That lasted a week and was one of the worst experiences of my life. You couldn’t bring books or anything else into the court room. You had to just sit there in silence on a hard wooden bench for 8 hours a day. Most people got called up and either accepted or dismissed, but for some reason they never called me or a few other people. We just had to sit there.

Then in 2005 I got a summoned again so I took time off work and went down to the county courthouse. The 2-deep line started some 300 feet inside, came out the front door and wrapped around 2 city blocks. I saw that mess and laughed so hard I nearly peed. I turned around and never went back. I guess it was a murder trial so every retard in the county wanted in. I never heard boo about my absence from anyone, although my friends told me they were going to put me in jail. I said that was fine because I’d been to jail, and it wasn’t as bad as sitting for jury selection in 1996.
 
I did last year. A few months later I recieved another notice stating I had 5 days to return the questionnaire or I would be found in contempt.
 
The summons is not sent registered mail so they have no way of knowing if you got it. I'm all for doing your civic duty, but the American legal system is such a folly that it's not worth the time going down there only to find out you're too intelligent to sit on a jury. Especially for criminal cases.
 
I threw out the first one, and the 3 follow ups that came after it. I went to jail awhile ago and they didn't mention a warrant so I'm guessing nothing came of that first summons.

I split time between LA and OC and when one came into LA I gave them OC address and since it's a different county they dropped the LA summons and put me in the OC pool. We'll see if I can do that backwards on the next summons.
 
i been summoned twice. both times they were dismissed before i actually had to go. i was kinda bummed.
 
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