Got summoned to Jury Duty later this month. First time ever I’ll actually have to show up. The only other time I got summoned I was in college out of state. Any good/bad stories from jury duty experiences in the past?
i got summoned to a medical case last year and went through selection. i wore my university of x medicine hoodie in giant bold font. was home by lunch.
Was called for it two years ago. Just tell them you love Law & Order. Pretty sure that's why I wasn't selected.
Got sent a thing in December to be in the jury pool this year. First time in my life. No summons yet.
just show up an answer honestly. odds are you won't be picked. If you really want to get out of it, when you find out what kind of case it is going to be, just give answers that are clearly biased towards one side. Ex. personal injury case, (IMO people always exagerate these things to get a pay day) Criminal case, (IMO cops are liars or if they arrested the guy, it was for a reason) statements like that will get you struck for cause really quickly
Was there for 5 or 6 hours. Once they started questionioning the jury pool the judge warned one of the lawyers about the slant of their questioning. She did it again. Everyone went home.
Had it 2 weeks ago. Was a very small circuit court with only 7 jurors picked (and 15 total summoned). Was on the jury and it was dumb. The prosecutor was awful and inexperienced. The defense attorney was in her first ever legal trial. Thankfully the defense didn't have to present a case. We deliberated for 5 minutes and turned in a not guilty verdict so we ended up getting out by 5ish. I would want no part in a trial that is longer, more important or harder to decide than the one I was on.
I just spent 3 weeks on a gang related double murder trial. It sucked and ruined my December/Christmas.
Making that call and being told I had to go the next day was more deflating for me than the Lions blowing a 17-point lead in the NFCCG.
I’ll have to remember to wear one of my work shirts if I am ever going thru selection on a medical case then.
I know most people don't want to serve but if you can, you should. Remember that in the event you are ever on trial, you want smart people in the jury box. This board is filled with people of above average intelligence, excluding devine of course.
I served on a domestic violence trial 10 years ago. Not something I’m in a hurry to do again but it was a pretty interesting experience and I’m glad I did it.
Timely thread. I’m currently in my second week of duty. Third time being summoned, first time being selected.
Today I also received my first ever jury summons. So long as it’s not a sexual abuse/murder trial, I’m really hoping I get selected.
I had my first ever summons last month. I have to call tomorrow at 7pm to see if I need to show up to jury duty downtown Fulton county from outside the perimeter on Wednesday morning.
finally got one a year or two ago and had to call in the night before as well (don't know if that's common practice) anyway I ended up not being needed and everyone lived happily ever after
Served on the first trial as an alternate coming out of COVID. Attempted murder. It was a weeklong case that had video evidence and witness intimidation. Pretty crazy stuff. When it came to deliberate, everyone was still there, so I got sent home.
It’s unbelievably privileged and arrogant to think that your time is too valuable to serve on a jury.
I would love a 2 week legally mandated break from work to sit on a jury. Have only gotten called once but never got out of the waiting room
we had a very senior employee ask permission for one of her journeyman staff members to get a letter on government letter head excusing her from jury duty due to the perceived importance of her work I was in total disbelief and shut that down with the quickness
Michigan (and other states’) law allows employers to force employees to use their PTO for jury duty days. What a horrible company policy, even if legal
My time isn’t too valuable. I took my juror instructions very seriously. Making a judgement around another person’s life was fucking terrifying (and ultimately the reason why we hung). I’m sure I’ll get lawyered into a corner, but I don’t ever want to do it again.
Just pulled up our HR policy on the matter and it says up to 14 calendar days paid, and anything after that requires upper management approval
There's plenty of people in this county sitting around collecting unemployment and disability to fill their jury
There’s a difference between never wanting to do it again and strategizing to get out of it. Based on your first experience, I bet you will (albeit reluctantly) serve again if ever called. It’s such a rare and minor inconvenience to the individual, but the importance to the parties involved and system as a whole is tremendous.
I’m not equating it to trauma or anything, but I better understand why people bond over extreme circumstances. Taking a group of 14 regular people and placing that burden on us was very heavy. We had the two alternates just straight up drop out from fear/terror and the woman that hung us wouldn’t vote guilty because of her own guilt. The wave of panic when putting my guilty votes in is something I won’t forget.
Sat on a capital murder case about 10 years ago, case ended up on the first 48. Couple years ago, I sat on theft of property, over a diamond ring.
I was summoned to jury duty and they had cameras all over the place filming a documentary. Come to find out everyone else were actors and the trial wasn't real. They paid me $100,000. P cool experience
Nope we found the guy not guilty, he worked for a moving company, and they never could actually prove it, just too many people coming and going during the move.
First call, sat that day on a ridiculous case. Prosecution called it in and as one of 2 apparently non-rascist, intelligent people we stood our ground on what I think was an important point. The other idiotic fuckers were so hung up on "all cops are good" they wouldn't convict on the charges the evidence proved and hung. I've never been prouder, and the defendant never luckier.
The only time I got through to the final 12 was an assault/kidnapping case. Guy told police and said he was kidnapped by a 6-0 hispanic woman. Then ultimately blamed it on his neighbor of 10 years, a 5-2 black woman (her lawyer had her slouch and wear flats too to make her look even smaller) who he "didn't recognize at the time." After looking at the zero physical evidence and listening to exclusively the victim's testimony we took all of nine minutes to find her not guilty
Got called and was in the slot to be on the jury. I was pumped until they start voir dire and explained it was a one-day trial about auto glass coverage. Luckily, they struck me when they found out I was a lawyer.