Have any of you served on jury duty? I will be Monday for the first time.. How was your experience?
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Snooch
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I served in a jury hearing an assault case. It was interesting but the hangup came during deliberations. 5 wanted to convict but a lone holdout kept us there for an additional day and a half before the judge could declare a hung jury and schedule a retrial with a new jury. It's a worthwhile experience and I'd do it again. Besides, it's one of your civic duties.
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yes i did and it was very interesting. It was very insightful on how the justice system work. we spent a lot of time in the jury room alot while the lawyers talked about different things, but over all it was a great experiance.
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I've been in front of a jury testifying several times for work, but never in the jury box. Be as fair as you possibly can, and really try to pay attention to what the witnesses are saying, even if we are boring you sometimes. :) Be prepared for delays and a lot of waiting, so if permitted you might want to bring something to read. Courthouses can be cold, so dress in layers. Bring change for the coke/coffee machine on breaks. Enjoy the experience! :)
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I've only done jury duty once, and I loved it! It was an incest case, and all of us were ready to hang the guy out to dry! Over the next five days it became obvious he was being set up by his scheming ex-girlfriend and her silly 14 year old daughter and we acquitted him. It was fascinating (if at times the testimony made you squirm) and there was real camaraderie amongst the panel. I would do it again in a flash.
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Both.
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Boring, not as good as Court TV.
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Twice. I was proud to do my community service but gosh things move so slowly. It was a learning experience though, and a very difficult thing to have such a bearing on anothers future. One case resulted in guilt, the other innocent.
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I just got off Jury duty today (civil court), as a matter of fact. There was a lot of waiting around, lots of breaks & at times was very repetitious. However, I did learn a lot. Especially about contracts, verbal agreements & documentation. Glad to have served, but glad its over. :/
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Put it this way, if you ever want to get out of jury duty, when the judge asks you if you can be fair and impartial, tell him no and that you read the story on this guy or lady and you think they are guilty.
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Once. It was boring, because I just sat in the on-call room for a long time. When we finally did get called in for a trial, I got kicked off the jury by the defense attorney, so I didn't get to do anything. I think it would be different if you actually got to listen to a trial and participate.
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Most jury duty is boring and time consuming but very important. What jurors often don't know is that the jury can examine the law in question, and judges hate this so much they will deny the jury the law to read, even when the law is submitted in the trial.
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Twice. Both were great insights into our legal system. It's a momentous responsibility we have as citizens when comprising a jury of someone's 'peers', and a lesson to truly appreciate our legal system--and not try to get out of it. The first was a police brutality case that settled, the second was a drug bust with fleeing and property damages--guilty.
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It was *yawn* Some dummy stole this little 'thing' and refused to say what it was. He eventually said it was "This little, fishing, thing." Come to think of it, that was just one that I watched. The trials I did jury duty for were all for speeders.
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Three times, Twice I was out in one day, but on one occasion I was in the pool for a big murder trial and was on call almost all summer.
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Yes, from the last week of September until the first week of November, 2006. It was on US Federal Court here in Puerto Rico. It was a big profile case. All those weeks it was the main topic of conversation in newspapers, radio and TV. The publicity it received was like the one the OJ Simpson case had in the USA, but it was white collar crime. It was a very good experience I will never forget.
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No.
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I was to be on a jury in a murder case; the guy had killed a 14yro girl; i had a 14 yro daughter. For some reason his lawyer didn't want me on the jury? strange!!
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never had to
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I have been summoned several times but never chosen.
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Yes but they kept getting cancelled! The one that I finally did make it to ended up getting rescheduled with a whole new jury too because a lot of the people that were asked to come in the first place ended up getting out of it too and they didn't have enough people! It was boring!
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I've received the summons thing but the way it works here you call in every night before to see if they need you, if you call in all 5 nights and they don't need you then you're off the hook, I got off the hook.
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I have served on jury duty quit a few times. Take a good book and puzzle to do cause you might sit for a very long time before they even call you.
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Ironically, I've never served jury duty; either cancellations or the pool was not selected. It can be a strain on smaller businesses if their employee is out for a few days.
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