Yes I have.
If you want out you have to answer the peremptory challenges the right way. These are a set of questions the attorneys will ask to see if your judgement will be influenced in a way to compromise your impartiality on the trial. Whatever they ask you, tell a story how that effected your life. Do not lie about what you have been through. Don't say your mother died at the hands of a crack fiend unless she really did. But, you can read about crack heads and be scared of them based on what you read.
The idea is to show you are incapable of being impartial on the subject at hand.
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[quote]If you want out[/quote] Why give suggestions for getting out? It's our civic duty.
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Not everyone feels as you do. When given the choice of performing your civic duty and missing out on potentially months of work...which would you choose? I got lucky, the trial I was a juror was only a 3 day one. Capital trials go for MONTHS.
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I thought most employers were required or at least heavily incentivized to give paid vacation for time served. And goes back to my reply to VerticalGradient, a trial can't proceed forward if they can't find a jury because everyone who is picked doesn't want to do it.
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Not every employer participates. I used to be in sales. When I was tapped for jury duty last it meant I wouldn't be in the office to make commissions, which was how I got paid.
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Bearbeitet von M37h3w3: 2/1/2013 2:36:32 AMA dam shame. But I'm also looking at it from the position of the potential victim. It's innocent until proven guilty and if the court can't find a jury to try the accused because they are purposefully throwing themselves out because they don't want to miss work, justice isn't being served. It would be horrific to see the killer of a significant loved one go free because the court can't find anyone willing to determine his guilt or innocence.
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They always find a jury. For every case there are hundreds of potential jurors. When I got called in I was handed a number and told to wait in a room with a few hundred people. If 1pm rolled by and I wasn't called, I was off the hook. The cases will move forward.
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Some of us have better things to do with out time than losing money from our jobs. I got summoned once, i called them up and told them I am no longer living in that district (which I was not anymore) so I thankfully got out of it.
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Well I think he's just putting it out there as an option. Like, maybe it's better to have someone who doesn't mind being juror, over someone who would be bothered by it, despite being proven impartial.
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True, but that type of mindset, if it goes widespread, is detrimental to the process. Can't find the killer of your daughter guilty because nobody wanted to be bothered to do jury duty?
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Bearbeitet von VerticalGradient: 2/1/2013 12:53:08 AMInteresting. I never thought about that (although I have/had no idea that was part of the process). I just checked to see if it would interfere with class times (falls on the day [i]before[/i] my finals), and so it would seem that I'm not exempt. Unless I feigned impartiality, I guess? But the thing is, I consider myself to be quite rational and objective, which is what a juror is supposed to be, I think. A small bit of logic tells me that, if I were selected, it would be for the best. As for whether I want to or not, I dunno. Indifferent, maybe.
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If you decide you want to I highly recommend it. I was a back up juror on a small criminal case, and I found the process fascinating.