Jury Duty

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Originally Posted by judy

They usually don't want Ph.D.'s. They seem to want the average person, not too educated. I'm surprised you were chosen for a murder trial. In NYC, they would not have done that.

Good luck in not being picked. It's pretty easy to make sure they don't choose you. "If someone gets arrested, I figure they're guilty," should get you right off!
How about, "All criminals should be shot. Trials are a waste of money."

When I was a teacher, I loved jury duty. Two or three paid weeks far away from the kids was lovely.

I know Judy, you are right, PhD's usually don't get picked to serve of juries. The funny thing is though, that on the murder trial, almost all of the jury were highly educated professional people. There was even a lawyer on the jury. It was really weird. The only common thread was that we had ALL postponed our first summons. We theorized that serving was punishment for postponing the original summons. I have never postponed since, and I have never been picked since. Hmmmmm..... probably a coincidence but I'm taking no chances!

I really didn't mind serving, it was pretty interesting actually. But I don't like it when it interferes with other plans. Once when we lived back in Oklahoma, Gary got a summons. You could NOT postpone for any reason - except maybe being sick in the hospital. Anyway, we had a PREPAID vacation scheduled. We could NOT get our money back if we didn't go, and he got picked for the jury. The trial was to start the day we were to leave on the vacation. We thought we were going to lose our money because we couldn't go. They called us about 9:00PM the night before the trial was to start and they settled out of court. WHEW! That was CLOSE!