Jury Duty, Are You Kidding Me?

[canyonwalker]

A week ago I got a summons for jury duty. It was for the week of Thanksgiving. I already have travel plans for the week so I requested a postponement. I got my new notice the other day. It's for... the week of New Year.

I was like, "Are you freaking kidding me?" They move me from the week of one major US holiday when a lot of people travel to the week of another major US holiday when a lot of people travel. Hawk and I already had penciled-in travel plans around New Year. I guess we'll have to cancel those as I don't think I can get a second postponement on jury duty.

Comments

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

If they want to play dirty, educate yourself on jury rights and tell them about the things you know are legal for you to do. Start with jury nullification and they'll most likely drop you like a hot rock -- especially if you add that you'll educate all your fellow jurors too.

Re: Well ...

[canyonwalker]

If it's like my last two (only two) times of jury service, they'll waste a few days of my time sitting in court before dismissing me without even getting to voir dire. What I really want is not to get out of service after sitting in court for 2 days by disqualifying myself to the judge but to reschedule the likely waste of my time to a non-holiday week. I'm not sure there's a paved-path way to do that.