Jury Duty

[gmichael]

Just ask them if the voices inside your head are too loud for them. You'll be sent packing in a few minutes.

 

[Midwesthonky]

Just ask them if the voices inside your head are too loud for them. You'll be sent packing in a few minutes.

A favorite of mine is to say "I have arguments with myself that turn violent."

 

[lsiberian]

You might ask if any of the lawyers are single.

 

[gmichael]

You might ask if any of the lawyers are single.

Or insisted that you need to sniff the judges' water because you are sure that it's vodka.

 

[Swerd]

It looks like I really have to go. My number is 40.



Call-In Information Jurors Summoned
for
7/22/2013
8:30 AM

<center> Call-in-number 1 through and including 221 </center>

If the Call-in-number, located on the lower right-hand side of your summons is 1 through and including 221, you must report for jury service as directed on your summons, and please follow the directions on the summons for further information regarding jury service.
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If your call-in number is 222 or higher, you are excused and will not be re-summoned for at least two years.

 

[Adam]

Check again in the morning. They sometimes update it.

 

[markw]

Just bring a Curious George hand puppet and let it do all your talking.

 

[Swerd]

I just got home from my day of jury duty. No trial for me!

In the morning, I was sent to a court room as a prospective juror for a criminal case for drug possession. There were about 45 people in the juror pool for this trial. Although many others had some thing to say as answers to the judge's questions during the selection process, the jury of 12 was selected before they got to me (#40). The unselected prospective jurors were sent back to the jury lounge (yes, they called it a lounge ), where we waited until about 2 pm. Then they started calling numbers of people who were done for the day.

I got $15 for my efforts.

 

[its phillip]

Nice. Here in tarrant county, we get $8 (or $6?) for the first day, and $40 for each additional day. I had to sign the checks over to my job though, since work still paid me for those two missing days

 

[j_garcia]

Nice. Here in tarrant county, we get $8 (or $6?) for the first day, and $40 for each additional day. I had to sign the checks over to my job though, since work still paid me for those two missing days

Pretty good. We get $15/day period like Swerd.

45 people? The case I was in with there were well over 200 people just the first day. They didn't eliminate me until the second day and also didn't pay me for that day.

 

[markw]

We get $5.00 and free parking.

 

[its phillip]

We also got a voucher for parking, but the parking lot was at some minor league baseball field a few miles away (you also got a bus voucher). I opted to park in a garage across the street from the courthouse at a cost of $20.

 

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