they trying to put me on grand jury duty

raggie33

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i dont know how to do that stuff for real even at hoa meeting i get so nerves i cant speak and i have so much to say lol. its like the phrase the cats got ya tongue. i wanna talk need to talk wait to its a good time to talk and say nothing . jury duty is something i cant do i can help them clean up park or something
 
i wanna help but they will have to let me talk to judge in private i cant talk in front of entire court room lol
 
Tell them you can be fair and impartial. Just as long as the defendant isn't a dirty, dirty __________.

Fill in any minority on the planet.

Watch how quickly you'll be excused.
 
I was a presenter at a grand jury once. I don't know if it's the same experience for all situations, but in my case it was a meeting in a conference room. It was a much more calm, relaxed setting than a courtroom would have been. They asked me for my opinions on the situation at hand, I told them, they asked a few follow-up questions and that was it. I would gladly do it again if I was asked. Raggie, you got this.
 
crazy like 3 people i know been asked and i know maybe 8 people in this town yes this town is that small lol
 
What Happens If You Lie on a Juror Questionnaire?
All potential jurors are required to complete juror questionnaires containing questions on topics such as the person's education, employment, criminal history, any disabilities that may require accommodation or would prevent the person from serving on a jury, whether the person works in or is related to someone who works in law enforcement, and whether the person owns or uses firearms.

You might think, or others might suggest, that lying on your questionnaire might help you get out of jury duty. Someone might recommend that you claim on your questionnaire that you oppose the jury system, lie about your life circumstances, or make false statements about your employment or current residence. These are not good suggestions. Making false statements in a jury questionnaire can be the basis for a charge of perjury, a felony crime.

What Happens If You Lie in a Letter to the Court?

Some people believe that a letter falsely claiming you are the only caretaker for your sick, elderly mother; or falsely describing the financial hardship that jury duty would impose on you, is the way to get out of jury duty. Other people may think a letter from an employer falsely claiming that the person summoned for jury duty is desperately needed at work can convince the court to excuse the person from jury duty. If your absence from your job truly would be a hardship for your employer, a letter explaining the circumstances is entirely appropriate and the judge may consider it and even excuse you. (Legitimate grounds for excusal from jury duty are addressed below.) If, however, you ask your employer to lie for you or forge a letter without your employer's knowledge and the court learns that the letter is not truthful or is a forgery, you could be charged with contempt of court or other crimes and be sentenced to time in jail.
 
i gave themsome medical records but a course there old since i havent found a new phycologist which a course they know we have none that are local we dont even have medical doctors. just a fancy nurse
 
ill do it long as they know i cant talk around more then 2 people maybe the judge can talk to me alone its a small town so who knows
 
I was asked very early in my new marriage when we were living pay check to paycheck. Basically if i served we would not be able to pay bills. I was excused and later i worked for a big company that paid my full salary while on jury duty and never got the call.
Now retired for several years they summoned me for jury duty and i was scheduled for complete Knee Replacement surgery that would have had me appear 3 days after the surgery on a lot of strong pain killers needing a wheel chair and someone to push me around and help me on the toilet lol.
Needless to say I'm expecting to get another summons this year most likely. I have no problem serving as it doesn't affect my income actually adds what ever the daily pay they give you i figure covers gas to get there and an Egg McMuffin.

I would not do it if i didn't have to but if called upon to do it i feel it's my civic duty to help put all these blankety blank criminals behind bars!
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i dont know how to do that stuff for real even at hoa meeting i get so nerves i cant speak and i have so much to say lol. its like the phrase the cats got ya tongue. i wanna talk need to talk wait to its a good time to talk and say nothing . jury duty is something i cant do i can help them clean up park or something
Get your doctor to write a note that you have adhd or any medical problem. Worked for me.
 
if i understand i choose if they should go to trial lol. only thing i know about court is from the show night court
 
The daily pay is garbage! Expect to be there minimum 3 days, more likely 4 before you get excused. Very first time I had to appear, I got picked. Ridiculously frivolous Civil case. Middle-aged man was not looking where he was going. Tripped over a couple of sliding glass beverage doors that had been unscrewed and were leaning outside of the bodega so that the drinks refrigerator could be cleaned. Well, after he tripped, the doors fell over due to his carelessness. They shattered. Not on top of him. But a flying piece of glass cut into his ankle. Caused a bit of minor bleeding. So what does he do? He sues of course! Despite it was his own fault for not looking where he was walking.

The sheer BS that his attorney piled on. You could bury a mountain underneath it. At one point, trying to argue that since the Bodega manager had to use a screwdriver to take the doors off, that THAT somehow proved that the doors were never meant to come off; shouldn't have been removed, and thus should not have been leaning outside against the wall. His attorney's closing argument lasted over an hour and a half! The other side, made up of two lawyers, needed only 10 minutes. Judge even asked him if he needed more than an hour for his closing argument. Fully expecting the Plaintiff's attorney to say "No." So that he could make his closing argument and we'd all be able to break for lunch.

Judge looked visibly ticked off when the guy instead said, "Yes." (We all were.) So lunch, then back for a ton more BS. With the attorney then saying at the very end that he knows his closing argument was very long, and that hopefully we (the jury) don't hold that against his client. Nine of us on the jury. Two guys, the rest women. All the women and I immediately voted to give the Plaintiff nothing! The other guy? He wanted to review all the evidence. Keep in mind we had been in court for 5 days at this point. None of us wanted to be there any longer.... Except the one other guy. The women just stayed back, quiet as can be. While he and I butted heads for nearly an hour!

Blatant honesty, this guy was fresh off the boat from a 3rd World country. (I'm First Generation Immigrant too. But I don't place a massive amount of value on trivial things.) His mentality was clear, he took jury duty way too seriously considering the circumstances of the case. Well, when you come from a 3rd World Nation in which you haven't done anything but work, eat, and sleep; finding yourself on jury duty is an adventure in your new country. Seen as a highly important responsibility to such individuals. Something you can go home to your family living with you and brag about how you were trusted with such an important responsibility. So, of course; he didn't want the experience to end. About this time, we get called back into the jury room.

The Defendant's lawyers, both being morons, thought they were about to lose the case. So after 5 days of wasting our time, they offered a settlement. Plaintiff's attorney was older and clearly smarter than they were. So he agreed! Oh! I was ticked off! Made some exaggerated body movements to clearly convey my disgust. Afterwards, we were back in the room with the rectangular table before being dismissed. All three of them stopped by with smiles on their faces to informally ask us how we thought they did. What the Hell?! Okay, I pulled the two morons to the side and told them that they were idiots for settling because we only had one hold-out, and that they were going to win the case had they not settled. They looked shocked. I grabbed my jacket and followed the other jurors back to the courtroom after making sure I'd get to talk to Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum last. Judge thanked us for our time, and formerly dismissed us.

That ridiculous experience / disgustingly frivolous case is why I do my best to get out of jury duty. Thankfully, I don't have to make anything up, personally speaking. My circumstances, I've got a couple of provable exemptions I can use. That case should have been dismissed long before it got to trial.
 
I feel you. So many cases are silly and they make the process so frustrating and annoying.

One time I was called up and it sounded like the case was that NYPD arrested a guy and to get off with a reduced sentence he told them that someone was delivering a large amount of some "substance" at a certain time and place and it was kept in his glove compartment.

Narcotics set up a roadblock and caught the correct black (there is a reason I pointed out the race) guy in the correct car with the correct amount of substance in the correct location.

The defense was asking us if we thought it was "fair" that they used a criminal to "snitch" on another and we believed the "white" police task force about the "substance" (sounded to me like they were trying to say it was planted)

I and many other people in the pool said something along the lines that fair or not it worked and we believed the 20+ police officers involved in this sting.

They kicked me off but I had to come back for day 2 as they kicked off too many "white males" and the prosecution could appeal that and reselect us. The next day they stuck a whole bunch of us in a conference room for hours while they selected the jury.
 
im excused thansk god ill help city do anything long as im alone i suck at humans in person. hect i suck at them online lol. btw i bet ive done 1500 bucks of work just cleaning up park for this city and all the litter i clean up off the streets. plus i pay a boat load of taxes for this town and i have no idea what it even pays for llol my freind says property taxes dont pay for the roads
 

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