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Re: jury duty update
Actually in a lot of counties (such as mine) you can
sit there for days waiting to be called up for a
possible spot on a jury without ever being called. I
was typically sent home each day after about 4-5 hours
of waiting.
Kelvin
--- LikeTheQuiche at aol_com wrote:
>
> > What I gather from your stories is that you might
> get an order to go to the
> > court together with a lot of other people from
> which they try to choose 12
> > for a jury? Yes
> > And if you're not chosen you can go home again?
> Yes
> > But what if you are chosen?
> > Anyone care to explain the jury system in a few
> words? Ha ha ha!
>
> You are stuck there for as long as the trial/hearing
> lasts. In my case it
> took 3 days to pick a jury (anyone against the death
> penalty in any case or
> for it in any murder case were eliminated). So the
> liars were sent home;
> once they discovered that either of those answers
> was the ticket home. The
> trial then took 5 days.
>
> Mike
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