July has been taken away.........
No travel for us. We went on our first trip just a few weeks ago. When we returned I was looking through the stack of mail. On the very bottom was a jury duty summons for my wife. She is on call for j...
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The way I look at it, it's a small price to pay for having a court system with jury that is comprised of my neighbors. The alternative is pretty scary.
The jury selection system in my County is pretty strict about attendance. We have the call in system but if you're scheduled to be there, you better show up, take a seat, and quit your grumbling. I saw more than a handful of folks that were offered a few days free stay in the cross bar hotel if they didn't want to play nice.
The way it's handled here is that you have a scheduled period of duration to be in the active jury pool, I think it was three weeks. If you sit on a jury for a trial, you're relieved of any more duty. A trial lasts typically, a day, or two at most. Only the very complicated high-profile trials last any more than that.
If the OP's wife sits on a trial at the beginning of her scheduled dates, she may be free from then on. I would suggest to do your duty and don't grumble about any personal inconvenience.
The jury selection system in my County is pretty strict about attendance. We have the call in system but if you're scheduled to be there, you better show up, take a seat, and quit your grumbling. I saw more than a handful of folks that were offered a few days free stay in the cross bar hotel if they didn't want to play nice.
The way it's handled here is that you have a scheduled period of duration to be in the active jury pool, I think it was three weeks. If you sit on a jury for a trial, you're relieved of any more duty. A trial lasts typically, a day, or two at most. Only the very complicated high-profile trials last any more than that.
If the OP's wife sits on a trial at the beginning of her scheduled dates, she may be free from then on. I would suggest to do your duty and don't grumble about any personal inconvenience.
