Jury duty

In reply to poopshovel again :

And if you said that during jury selection you'd never get seated, so keep a lid on it! I think "I know about, believe in, and will educate fellow jurors in jury nullification" is pretty much a guaranteed out on any jury.

I've never been called. 25 years a registered voter and not once.

Been called 4 or so times.  2 times let go early.  1st time in the jury box was an arson case, was let go in 1st round of questioning.  2nd time was a murder case, in which a young woman ran over and killed a child instead of her ex-boyfriend, her intended target.  Was let go the 2nd day.

Bring a book.  In our county you have to lock your cell phone and laptops in your car but they allow you to read as you wait. 
 

I've had to kill 3-4 hours at a time waiting for the process....

My son got the call right after he bought a house in Connecticut (we live in NY).  He called and got an extension for 6 months because he was going to be out of town on business that week.  By the time the 6 months was up, he had submitted an address change to CT.

He dodged a bullet.    TWO WEEKS into his new house and he was notified of Jury Duty in his new county.

"Do you believe police officers always tell the truth"

"No"

And like that, I was no longer part of the jury.  

I've been called twice first time I was on a jury and we heard testimony for two days in a kidnapping/drug rip we were excused after two days so no known conclusion. The second time I responded to the summons and laid out my reasons to be excluded and they were accepted.

To OP are you not a vet? If you're a sole practioner  with staff and clients whom rely on you those may be reasons to exclude you.

I've received a jury summons twice in twenty years. I have an easy out though....I'm not a citizen.

dculberson said:

In reply to poopshovel again :

And if you said that during jury selection you'd never get seated, so keep a lid on it! I think "I know about, believe in, and will educate fellow jurors in jury nullification" is pretty much a guaranteed out on any jury.

I've never been called. 25 years a registered voter and not once.

Well yeah. DUH. Apparently they like my non-convicting ass though. Every few years I get called constantly. 

I used to piss and moan and try to weasel my way out of it, because I REALLY needed to be at work, making money.

When you're able to assist in acquitting ANOTHER motherberkeleyer who ALSO really needs to be AT WORK, MAKING MONEY, instead of wasting a bunch of his/her time/money/taxpayer dollars on some bullE36 M3 charge from 5 years ago, where 90% of the evidence is gone, 3/4 of the cops involved in the arrest have either moved, died, or are IN JAIL, it's a REALLY good feeling to give that motherberkeleyer his/her freedom back.

I get called about every 2 years like clockwork. Usually I get told the night before that I don't have to appear. 
 

Last time, got seated on a personal injury jury trial. Took less than a day... luckily. 

DeadSkunk (Warren) said:

I've received a jury summons twice in twenty years. I have an easy out though....I'm not a citizen.

So you are voting?

In reply to spitfirebill :

No.