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[Graybeard58]

Sit in a small waiting room all day long watching CNN on the tv on the wall, come back and do the same thing the next day and you’ll think twice about answering a call to jury duty.

Oh, I forgot, you are excused every two hours, to go feed the parking meter.

[businessprofessor]

I have ignored jury duty on numerous occasions. Jury duty is forced servitude. If forced, I will certainly appear but I will not voluntarily serve.

I was called for jury duty in Austin TX one time. The instructions indicated that you must not be late. I arrived in the parking lot with plenty of time to spare but I could not find the appropriate parking area. I walked in about 1 minute late just after the door was closed to the courtroom. I was certainly not alone with perhaps 30 to 50 people arriving after me. After 30 minutes, the officer announced that everyone late was dismissed. Sometimes, it does pay to be late.

[Baynative]

I recently got called up and was not into serving at all. I have a lot of stressful things going on and could not give my full attention to the trial. Therefore, I would not make a good juror.

There were several others who immediately raised their hand and "begged off". But, there were also a lot of people just dying to be chosen. They we adamant about how fair they could be and how they had absolutely no prejudices at all.

I came away thinking that the courts should have a way for volunteer jurors to offer their time.

[Sarajevo]

Nyah.........I was alerted for Jury Duty when I was overseas. The spouse told them where I was, and their response: Prove it.

I emailed them from my duty station on official letterhead stating that I was overseas, yet they responded that they expected me to be present in 3 days.

My response- F.U.

Too many localities think they can dictate a citizens movement, or require ton of paperwork to justify those moverments.

[ThomasThomas]

Those who refuse to serve on a Jury don’t deserve a jury trial.

[buccaneer81]

Article Three, Section Two and Amendments Six and Seven leave us with a mudled view of what the jury system supposedly entails.

[sneakers]

I was called for local jury duty on April 4th. I got eliminated - presumably because of my job as records manager for the Clerk of Courts in our county.

And, goody, I was also on call for the past two weeks, for Western District Federal Court jury duty. Again, I didn’t get chosen.

Hey, they say it’s a priviledge.

Who knew?

[Huntress]

I’ve been called twice, but never selected as a juror. I’m an attorney, so I’ll probably never be chosen. I’d rather like to serve (in a short trial) just to see what a trial is like from a juror’s perspective.

[Inyo-Mono]

In my county with a very small population, I get jury duty notices at least twice a year. I have ended up on a jury panel twice and have used this as my guide:

ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1804): Jurors should acquit even against the judge's instruction...."if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong."

[ChildOfThe60s]

Florida’s jury pool selection law is moronic. The mathematics of it would make a bookie insane. I’ll not write an explanation here, but when I tried to explain to the clerk’s office in Polk county how flawed the methodology was, the shuffling, drooling zombies couldn’t comprehend what I was talking about.

When I lived there I got called 8 times in 15 years, served on several. In the same time, no one on my street, including my wife, got called.

The ultimate stupidity of Polk County:

Some years ago, TWO YEARS after we moved to Kentucky, my wife received a jury summons from Polk County (addressed to our KY address!! NOT forwarded) We had sold our FL home, retitled our cars (including notifying the state of FL of taking residence in KY) & turned in our FL driver licenses. We had absolutely NO legal ties to FL, of any sort for over two years.

Still makes me mad when I think about it.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

South Fla has a lot of illegals...and using the Dr License means they get summons....but they ain’t showing up....they could get deported

[Palladin]

Three states I never want to live in:

Florida
New Jersey
California

[DocH]

Ay carumba and oy ve!

[FormerACLUmember]

Citizen rebellion against the corrupt Trial Lawyer Industry.

[WalterSobchak2012]

I always found showing up wearing a confederate flag tie and saying I would never convict somebody facing the death penalty or drug charges would get me a walk every time.

[dragnet2]

Who in hell can afford to go to jury duty? With gas at 4 bucks a gallon, lost jobs, wages cut, hours cut... Most struggling just to pay their mortgages, if they still have homes etc..

Jury duty is punitive and unaffordable in today meat grinding economy.

[Molon Labbie]

Professional Juries.

Make them up of the racial, age and gender makeup of the US so no arguments of not being judged by a panel of my peers. Voir dires would become almost non-existent and trials could start earlier. Volunteers could be used as alternates.

Also do away with the unanimous jury decision. It lends itself to jury nullification by those seeking social justice through the jury box.