Jury Duty

[indiangurlie]

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo freakin excited, I got called for jury duty!!!!!! This probably isn't exciting for most people but I am very very excited to go. My date is on the 27th of december at 8 am...does anyone know how this works? Can I know what time it will end by? Can it carry on for days?

Comments

[platomapus]

i just got called for jury duty too!!!! mine is january 8th! i know that you have to call a number that i guess is on the thing you get in the mail and see if your name is listed and if it is you go, if not, you dont! about what time it ends...i dont know BUT i do know that my sister got called for it once and had to go for like 3 days in a row i think! so be prepared!

[indiangurlie]

shiat i don't plan on taking off of work for more than one day, but i know also that some employers will stay pay you your regular wages otherwise the court will pay you $15 bucks a day, which still isn't what you'd make at work...so i still wanna get called, but hopefully we can decide on a verdict in one day!

[platomapus]

i'm pretty sure its like...mandatory that your work pays you for the days you miss for it and it doesnt count as your paid time off or anything they just pay you as if you were at work all day!

[sweet_dysphoria]

very correct

[sweet_dysphoria]

i want to be called!!!!! i think it is cool! i have never got to do it and everyone seems to be getting called to duty but meee

[teflon_heart]

You should have a day when you need to start calling to find out if you are requested for that day. Sometimes you call every day for a week and end up not getting picked, sometimes they call you in the first day but make you show up for a couple days until they pick all the people.

You'll go, the attorney(s) will ask you what appear to be generic questions about a topic. They'll gauge how open-minded you are about that topic. If they like you, you'll get asked to serve. Usually you have to show up to serve the next day or within a week.

Depending on the type of case you'll have, it could last anything from an hour to a few days. It really depends on if you're sitting on a civil case or a federal case. Federal cases, naturally, take longer.

[raynala]

I want jury duty!

[ahchahadd]

I got jury Duty for the 28th of novmeber. but i over slept. so they rescheduled me.