I have jury duty for the first time tomorrow...

[JohnCU]

What to expect?

 

[FleshLight]

It depends on what your occupation is. If you are a lawyer, a student, or a blue collar worker, odds are you will be sitting around for 6+ hours wasting your day. If not, you may be selected to be on a jury and you can look forward to sitting around for 2+ days.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
It depends on what your occupation is. If you are a lawyer, a student, or a blue collar worker, odds are you will be sitting around for 6+ hours wasting your day. If not, you may be selected to be on a jury and you can look forward to sitting around for 2+ days.

blah, white collar gets to stay?

 

[aircooled]

My first case (last year) ended up being a month long 1st degree murder trial with death penalty on the line. Before the trial there is ALOT of waiting, but once the trial started it was actually quite interesting.

 

[altonb1]

I've never been called for jury duty before, but I've heard it would be worth your while to take a book or some magazines or something.

 

[gururu2]

ya its a lot of sitting in a waiting room reading old magazines. least they could do is put an xbox

 

[DaveSimmons]

I spent 3 days sitting with a book, waiting to see whether I'd be picked. I never even got to the being-questioned-by-lawyers stage.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Definitely take a book. A day of boredom is the best you can expect.

 

[JC86]

bring a book, ipod or something to keep you occupied. You get ushered into a waiting room with 50-70 strangers and sit around till a courtroom needs approximately 20 potential jurors to be selected for the case. You'll get called on to answer questions by both the defense and prosecution. if they like your answers, they'll keep you, if not, they'll eliminate you and you're home free, at least for a year. I was lucky and only had to wait for two hours, I heard some wait all day though. The questions will be obvious and if you want to avoid getting picked for the case, answer what they don't want to hear.
i.e. if its a case of armed robbery, the defense will typically ask you if you've been robbed. The idea being that people who've been robbed are more likely to be less sympathetic towards the defendant. If you say you have been, there's a good chance they'll eliminate you from consideration. *disclaimer* I am not telling you to commit perjury, answer to the best of your ability but you can embellish the facts a little to make a point.

 

[IronWing]

"My religious beliefs prevent me from judging another."

"Thank you, You're dismissed."

 

[IronWing]

"My religious beliefs can not prevent me from double posting."

"Thank you, You're dismissed."

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: ironwing
"My religious beliefs can not prevent me from double posting."

"Thank you, You're dismissed."

:laugh:

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: ironwing
"I'm too lame to do my duty."

"Thank you, You're dismissed from the human race."

Fixed

 

[Zorro]

ignore it don't go

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: Zorro
ignore it don't go

Yeah, apparently everybody else does on this forum. Then come back and bitch about how only the dumbest people serve on juries.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

Originally posted by: ironwing
"I'm too lame to do my duty."

"Thank you, You're dismissed from the human race."

Fixed

The quote I gave was from another member of the jury pool I was in last month. I don't try to weasel out. I didn't get picked for that one. My guess is that they dropped me because my employment touched on many of the issues in the case. I get to go for jury duty again next month, this time for county court. I've been called three times now and selected once (DUI case).

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

Originally posted by: ironwing
"I'm too lame to do my duty."

"Thank you, You're dismissed from the human race."

Fixed

The quote I gave was from another member of the jury pool I was in last month. I don't try to weasel out. I didn't get picked for that one. My guess is that they dropped me because my employment touched on many of the issues in the case. I get to go for jury duty again next month, this time for county court. I've been called three times now and selected once (DUI case).

Sometimes I wish they could force these people to do something else for the day, like being a meter maid.

 

[Brutus04]

Do us proud!

 

[Brutus04]

Do us proud!

 

[BrokenVisage]

3 words: Bring a DS

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

If you get selected to be in a jury pool and go through voir dire or even end up getting selected as a member of a trial jury it's actually pretty cool to see our justice system in action and be a part of it, imo. I've only been called to jury duty one time but ended up on a jury in a rather interesting trial. Unfortunately one of the witnesses testified about the accused having prior convictions, at which point the judge sent us out of the room and ended up calling a mistrial.

If anything else jury duty usually involves a large number of people so it's almost a sure thing that there will be at least a few hotties to ogle.

 

[I Saw OJ]

I watched my father in action a few times in court when I was a kid (hes a lawyer) it was pretty cool. I wish I could be picked for jury duty now as an adult so I could watch things and know wtf was going on.

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
If you get selected to be in a jury pool and go through voir dire or even end up getting selected as a member of a trial jury it's actually pretty cool to see our justice system in action and be a part of it, imo. I've only been called to jury duty one time but ended up on a jury in a rather interesting trial. Unfortunately one of the witnesses testified about the accused having prior convictions, at which point the judge sent us out of the room and ended up calling a mistrial.

If anything else jury duty usually involves a large number of people so it's almost a sure thing that there will be at least a few hotties to ogle.

I don't know, I was very disappointed in the legal system when I was a juror in a trial. It was a car accident then trial for just $5k in medical expenses, and it seemed to all of us that the lawyers on both sides didn't give two shits about the case. And I kid you not, the judge was actually nodding off to sleep while the chiropractor was going through pages upon pages upon pages of treatment records and none of us jurors really remembered any of it either.

It is very interesting, though, to see exactly why it is crucial to get a good lawyer, in this case, if either lawyer had done just a little bit extra work the verdict easily could have been for either side heavily, instead of down the middle.

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
If you get selected to be in a jury pool and go through voir dire or even end up getting selected as a member of a trial jury it's actually pretty cool to see our justice system in action and be a part of it, imo. I've only been called to jury duty one time but ended up on a jury in a rather interesting trial. Unfortunately one of the witnesses testified about the accused having prior convictions, at which point the judge sent us out of the room and ended up calling a mistrial.

If anything else jury duty usually involves a large number of people so it's almost a sure thing that there will be at least a few hotties to ogle.

Was that a witness for the prosecution? Either way, what idiot lawyer would prep anyone for testifying without covering that base? I understand you can't always control what the wintness will say, but before they even took the stand they should have been made well aware if that was off limits.

 

[TwiceOver]

In short, I would expect sitting in a chair and casting a vote. All in all, it is like Survivor without immunity and nobody goes home. Ohh yeah, someone not in your tribe gets screwed also.