Jury Duty...

[royhuggins]

...can kiss my ass. But Colleen is there with me!! Colleen is one of my classmates from my grad school cohort. Of all the voters in Multnomah county, we got picked for duty on the same day. Whodathunkit? They even have wireless in the jury room but Colleen and I have been too busy doing the Breakfast Club thing for me to use it. Right now we're on

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[jwithington]

yeah, that's crazy how a regular job can't dock you, but when you don't work a regular job....

there are plenty of ways you can get out of it though. at least, inc chicago there were.

so! are you going to see the very foundation on tuesday?

Jury duty in Massachusetts

[anonymous]

I just did it last week. We have a "one day or one trial" system whereby you're either there for one day or one trial, & 97% of jurors leave in less than 3 days. though massachusetts used to have that 30-day thing years ago; unless you had an 'important' job like Doctor or Lawyer or something, in which case you were exempt; so it was set up to be 'by a jury of your poors.'

i didn't get picked (tho i was in a courtroom of people being dumped in the jury box), so i was out by half past noon*
-jrd

*: further report: http://soruby.com/braimbles/sawyer282.html