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I just go and get a paid day off from work. No big deal.
So I have Jury Duty this coming Thursday.... I have my own way of getting out of it and was just wondering if anyone else had a way to get out...
So basically, I go and chill out until I get called... When I get called, I listen to the case and form an opinion that will make the defense completely reject me as a juror...... Say it is a traffic problem where the defendant says the light was still yellow and she/he hit someone... I will immediately say "yellow doesn't mean speed up, it means slow down and prepare to stop".... This will automatically make the defendants lawyer exclude me from the jury... Then I have the rest of the day off... luckily for me, I get paid full for jury duty from my employer so it is basically a free day off....
Any of you got some jury duty tricks like that?
I just go and get a paid day off from work. No big deal.
True, most of the time that is all it is.... but when you get called into a panel, do you do anything specific to get out of it so you are not stuck there for days on end until the trial is done?
I mean, One day I might be interested in a case enough that I might actually want to be a juror on but for the most part I think it is bull and not worth my time. I DGAF if some dude was caught with a dime bag of weed and dont want to waste my precious time as a "juror" on that bull .
I actually try to get selected but never have. Yeah I'd rather be selected for a serious case rather than some BS case.
Losers...
Unless you cannot for obligations or finical reasons...
You are a loser!
You can write them as to why you can't.
Pranks like yours are what losers do.
This is a civic duty.
It's your finical duty
It's an interesting idea, but it's harder to pull off in a more complex case; at least, it's harder to pull of convincingly. I watched jury selection in a civil case in Harris County a few years ago and a guy in the jury pool tried to take a hard line stance on an issue as you suggest. But his position irked the judge because it was extremely obvious that the potential juror thought he could game the system. The judge responded by threatening him with contempt for being less than honest (I have my doubts about whether the judge could actually hold him in contempt) and encouraged the lawyers to bang away on him after admonishing him that honestly was his only salvation from a night in the clink. They tore the guy apart and instead of being excused as a biased juror, he ended up being selected.
Karmically, the best part of the whole thing was that he was selected, but as an alternate, which meant that he had to sit through a month-long trial but never got a chance to deliberate or vote on the verdict.
Odds of even being selected are so slim. I've been a few times and never even got my name called.
Just be honest. That should keep you out!
Been using this forever.
As you know the judge (cops) will talk to behind the podium.
Living in central Cali it's always some Mexican who did something stupid, always!
Avante...I have seen that guy before, I'm pretty sure it was at the home of gang member named (whatever) it was a yardsale. I can't be impartial here knowing what I do about that gang. My son in law is a member.
Judge....you can go.
Yep, if ever a white guy, hmmmm?
Judge : Mr...Avante...do you believe that you can render an unbiased judgment on the case at hand?
Avante: translation...how about a little blues Avante? Sure and let me tell you about my top 4 all black running back 4x100 teams.
Judge: I think that will be all...please step..
Avante: Hey, will there be any kids sequestered with us?
Judge: Away
Loser...
I just keep extending my date. I'm going on well over a year now pushing my date back. I keep expecting it to not let me do it anymore on the website but I just keep kicking the jury duty can down the road.
You do know that adults laugh at how ignorant you are, right?
I have more $$$$ than you do, trust me!
worrying about jury duty
Bro, just don't go. The courts are not going to waste time and money prosecuting "jury jumpers". There is also no way they can prove you received the summons.
If you want to go a more official route, tell them you are a stay at home Dad with no one to care for your children. There is nothing else you need to say, send back the sheet and it's done.
That is probably true in a big city, but it isn't true in a smal town. You will be fined if you ignore jury duty, I know more than a few who have.
Bro, just don't go. The courts are not going to waste time and money prosecuting "jury jumpers". There is also no way they can prove you received the summons.
If you want to go a more official route, tell them you are a stay at home Dad with no one to care for your children. There is nothing else you need to say, send back the sheet and it's done.
You mom doesn't laugh when I get ignorant all up in her butt.
Then go the second route.
What is the big freakin' deal about showing up for jury duty!? How American of so many of you. Pathetic.
It was nice if you to stop in. Look...it's not that you're not a cool guy. But this just isn't for you Wilson.
Don't with me. I just saw something about the Berenstein Bears that is making my head spin.
It's not that I want to shirk on my civic duty, I just find the whole process tedious.... Do I REALLY have to sit there for 6 hours doing nothing and then get called into some bull case for a jay walker or some guy who had the smell of weed on him 6 months ago?
It is so much bull . Jury duty wouldn't be so bad if they summoned you for a specific case and a specific time for jury selection.... don't waste my time and make me sit there for hours on end waiting to be called upon for some obvious loser who shows up to court wearing baggy sagging jeans and a white t-shirt to defend himself. Honestly, how can I take them (the defendant) seriously if they don't even have the common sense to show up presentable in a court of law? He/she represents themselves as some lowlife thug and expects me to favor their point of view? that. Even the most re ed criminal knows to at least make himself/herself presentable in a court of law.
If you show up thuggin with your threads, expect to be treated like the ing thug you are being accused of being.
Honestly, EVERY SINGLE panel I have been called into has some guy tatted up with MS13 or Orejon gang tats and they always dress to their collective IQ.... it's like INVITING the jury to pass a guilty verdict immediately. What pisses me off the most is I have friends and family who are registered voters who haven't been called for jury duty in YEARS and yet I seem to get called every ing year.... bull .
Last edited by phyzik; 08-18-2015 at 12:34 AM.
Read that back to yourself re , ok?
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