I"m in jury duty right now

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I"m #75 they called, 1 thru 32 then called 33 thru 64. Hope they pick me soon or let me go home, I hate the wait.1st time typing on phone this is hard small key pad lol.
 
I'm about due. Last time I was there, they had about 200 prospective jurors and said the case could last up to 3 weeks. Raise your hand if you can't commit to that long of a trial. I raised my hand along with some others and we were told, Thank you for your service. This concludes your juror duty. Please see the clerk on your way out to let her know you were here.
 
I hope he puts the phone away if picked!
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I just got thru with Grand Jury duty. Very eye opening. 99.999% is al related to drugs or alcohol. This is a car related forum. I can't tell you how many cases started with a safety stop for alight out and went VERY downhill from there. Amazing what people drive around with in their cars.
 
Originally Posted By: chrly919
I just got thru with Grand Jury duty. Very eye opening. 99.999% is al related to drugs or alcohol. This is a car related forum. I can't tell you how many cases started with a safety stop for alight out and went VERY downhill from there. Amazing what people drive around with in their cars.


I know

Some drive around with Fram filters or non Michelin/General tires

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I served jury duty and it lasted two weeks. I reported at 10 AM and was out everyday but one by the courts noon lunch hour.
The county court paid jurors $10 per day. I parked blocks away and walked to avoid parking meters and the parking garage.
My employer paid me my normal wage minus the juror pay.
 
Originally Posted By: michaelluscher
Originally Posted By: chrly919
I just got thru with Grand Jury duty. Very eye opening. 99.999% is al related to drugs or alcohol. This is a car related forum. I can't tell you how many cases started with a safety stop for alight out and went VERY downhill from there. Amazing what people drive around with in their cars.


I know

Some drive around with Fram filters or non Michelin/General tires

...
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Or pay full price for a car. My sister was on a trial once, during the case it came up that the person was buying a car. It was a Hyundai. They paid the sticker price. She thought it was strange that they didn't try to negotiate the price. I guess they treated it like the price at Walmart, the price is the price.
 
Originally Posted By: chrly919
I just got thru with Grand Jury duty. Very eye opening. 99.999% is al related to drugs or alcohol. This is a car related forum. I can't tell you how many cases started with a safety stop for alight out and went VERY downhill from there. Amazing what people drive around with in their cars.


I don't know about Tennessee, but in Ohio and I'm guessing in most of America, a lot of possession cases are dismissed. I can show proof of it. My dad is a retired attorney. When you watch COPS on TV, the drug addict who claims the heroin/rig/tar/stem/boy/weed/kit/crack... the cop found in their car or on them isn't theirs is saving his/her butt from being found guilty. The person will likely be charged and might spend time in jail, but most possession cases are dismissed.
 
I am over 50 and have never been called for jury duty.
My sister got called several times in Cook County and was told to report to downtown Chicago every time but one despite living in the burbs...she never drove and didn't like taking the L, so she took a series of buses back and forth every day until her time was up. One time she was ordered to report to a court in a faraway suburb and was told that there were plentiful mass transit options when she called to explain that she didn't have a car...I think she figured out that it was going to take her at least 2.5 hours each way. She finally was able to get transferred to the court in the town where we grew up and where she still lived.
My wife was on a jury while pregnant and was threatened by some jag with whom she dared to disagree...he told her he was a delivery driver and would figure out where she lived since he knew her name. She locked herself in the bathroom and the jag was escorted from the premises...I couldn't believe that he wasn't charged, threatening somebody in a courthouse???
I asked my wife for his name several times because I wanted to find him and beat him within an inch of his life, but she knew what I was up to and she never told me.
 
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Originally Posted By: skyactiv
I served jury duty and it lasted two weeks. I reported at 10 AM and was out everyday but one by the courts noon lunch hour.
The county court paid jurors $10 per day. I parked blocks away and walked to avoid parking meters and the parking garage.
My employer paid me my normal wage minus the juror pay.


The court doesn't stamp your parking ticket / pass so you don't have to pay for parking ?
 
Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
The past 15 years I've tossed my jury summons in the trash.

I'm too busy at work to go to court for some criminal.


I guess you are a criminal since you have been ignoring the summonses!
 
I've been on a couple of juries. I found it interesting and was happy to do my duty.
 
Having lived in So. Cal all my life (until 5years ago)-I have seen OJ get away with murdering two people thanks to the jury systems. And then the cops who beat the living daylights out of Rodney King get away with that.

Consequently-I have absolutely no faith in the jury system. When I'm called to serve this will be my position.
 
I was on a jury in Michigan around 1975. 1st. degree murder case. it was going on 2 weeks, we broke for the weekend. I had needed a haircut for some time. Got it cut that Sat. Went in the following Mon., Defense lawyer took one look and dismissed me and called the alternate juror. Wish I had got the haircut a week earlier.....
 
Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
Originally Posted By: skyactiv
I served jury duty and it lasted two weeks. I reported at 10 AM and was out everyday but one by the courts noon lunch hour.
The county court paid jurors $10 per day. I parked blocks away and walked to avoid parking meters and the parking garage.
My employer paid me my normal wage minus the juror pay.


The court doesn't stamp your parking ticket / pass so you don't have to pay for parking ?


Must be nice if they do that where you're from. I've been to court houses all around the city. They never pay for parking. It's worse when it's right in the city, even the employees have nowhere to park.

I've been having bad luck with juries lately, been getting picked the last few times. The last time it was the same deal, I almost got picked to be seated on a 2 week trial, but they seated a jury before my panel number was called. Back to the jury pool and I got picked for a 3 day trial. Ended up being a 4 day trial, got the case after 2 days, deliberated for two days. I held out for guilty, the others thought it was not enough evidence, people expect CSI evidence these days, I finally caved on the 4th day, it was originally 50/50 on a straw vote.
 
I can pretty much never be on a jury in Santa Barbara County. I know way too many police and I took a Superior Court judge's daughter to senior prom.
 
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