Selected for Grand Jury duty with interviews coming up

[bonez318ti]

Anyone ever get selected for jury duty or grand jury duty with some upcoming interviews? I have one scheduled for a week following the jury duty and one about 3 weeks after jury duty.

Grand jury duty is a 4 week commitment and while I'll be able to make the jury date, I won't be able to make a 4 week commitment. I called the number they provided and they told me to just show up and tell them I have commitments the following week.

Anyone with experience on this?

Thanks

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[OSUdoc08]

Anyone ever get selected for jury duty or grand jury duty with some upcoming interviews? I have one scheduled for a week following the jury duty and one about 3 weeks after jury duty.

Grand jury duty is a 4 week commitment and while I'll be able to make the jury date, I won't be able to make a 4 week commitment. I called the number they provided and they told me to just show up and tell them I have commitments the following week.

Anyone with experience on this?

Thanks

You are exempt from jury duty if you are currently a college student, medical student or a physician.

If you are not one of these, then you must appear.

You can always make yourself an undesirable juror during voir dire.

 

[melimi]

You are exempt from jury duty if you are currently a college student, medical student or a physician.

If you are not one of these, then you must appear.

You can always make yourself an undesirable juror during voir dire.

you are actually not exempt if you are a college student, i know by experience

 

[biendesalud]

Tell them you know all about the Michael Jackson thing...you'll get out for sure.

You can probably go and get dismissed, but you should also be able to delay your date up to 6 months. If you move before your delayed date comes up (i.e. to another county to go to med school) then you are automatically dismissed (unless your new county calls you).

 

[Trident]

you are actually not exempt if you are a college student, i know by experience

i told them i was in college and got out of it...maybe it depends on the jurisdiction

 

[melimi]

i told them i was in college and got out of it...maybe it depends on the jurisdiction

yeah, I know in Boston they dont accept it as an excuse, but its prob because about 90% of the city's population is in college 🙂

 

[Law2Doc]

You are exempt from jury duty if you are currently a college student, medical student or a physician.

If you are not one of these, then you must appear.

You can always make yourself an undesirable juror during voir dire.

This statement about exemption may be true in your state, but certainly not in all of them.
I agree with your last sentence though -- I suspect that wearing a T shirt that says "Guilty until proven innocent" will usually do the trick.

 

[OSUdoc08]

you are actually not exempt if you are a college student, i know by experience

You are in Texas. I was.

 

[DrWorkNeverDone]

just walk in and answer, *i know their guilty, i can see it in their eyes, the way they laugh at me, oh yeah he's guilty* then stand on the chair and cluck like a chicken..that will get you out 🙂

 

[OSUdoc08]

just walk in and answer, *i know their guilty, i can see it in their eyes, the way they laugh at me, oh yeah he's guilty* then stand on the chair and cluck like a chicken..that will get you out 🙂

or held in contempt

 

[MedicineBird]

Turn it into a racial issue. If you're caucasian, scream, "You only picked me 'cuz I'm black." If you are a person of color, say, "what, I'm white so you automatically think I should be on your jury?!" The statements will not only take you off their list but also confuse the hell out of them.

 

[bjackrian]

At least in my jurisdiction, grand jury duty is a voluntary thing because it lasts for so long--if you don't want to commit to the four weeks, you just tell them. Regular jury duty, you're stuck with unless you've got a really brilliant excuse. Fortunately, I've only been summoned for grand jury duty, so I just said I didn't want to, and that made them happy.

 

[Law2Doc]

At least in my jurisdiction, grand jury duty is a voluntary thing because it lasts for so long--if you don't want to commit to the four weeks, you just tell them.

That's certainly not the national norm.

 

[deuist]

Call the clerk of the court and tell him/her that you've recently moved. That move works every time for me.

 

[Law2Doc]

Call the clerk of the court and tell him/her that you've recently moved. That move works every time for me.

FYI, there are penalties if you get caught.

 

[jmv1083]

Anyone ever get selected for jury duty or grand jury duty with some upcoming interviews? I have one scheduled for a week following the jury duty and one about 3 weeks after jury duty.

Grand jury duty is a 4 week commitment and while I'll be able to make the jury date, I won't be able to make a 4 week commitment. I called the number they provided and they told me to just show up and tell them I have commitments the following week.

Anyone with experience on this?

Thanks

Here's a link to a very informative website:

http://www.pagerealm.com/jury/jury-duty-excuses-how-to-get-out-avoid-court-service.html

 

[pseudoknot]

You are exempt from jury duty if you are currently a college student, medical student or a physician.

If you are not one of these, then you must appear.

You can always make yourself an undesirable juror during voir dire.

This will vary by state. I'm a graduate student in California and I served on a jury with two physicians. Also, the people who tried to game the system during voir dire ("I hate cops," "I think everyone's guilty," etc.) just ended up getting sent over to Civil Division. On the other hand, at least in our court system, you should have no trouble getting a deferment if you ask the clerk and have a good reason.

 

[Law2Doc]

Here's a link to a very informative website:

http://www.pagerealm.com/jury/jury-duty-excuses-how-to-get-out-avoid-court-service.html

Unfortunately this advice is not 100% accurate, and/or not universally accurate in all 50 states. I can tell you for a fact that in many states, contrary to the initial paragraph, being an attorney, physician, dentist etc. will not get you out of jury duty. 😡

 

[VienneseWaltz]

People with advanced degrees rarely serve on juries b/c the lawyers don't want jurors who will be able to poke holes in their arguments, but they are certainly not exempt, at least everywhere I've lived.

I have been summoned at least three times for regular or grand jury duty and have always been excused without hassle for school or because I had moved. OP, if you explain that your interviews are scheduled during this time and that skipping them has a potentially huge impact on the rest of your life, I can't imagine that they would keep you.

 

[Law2Doc]

People with advanced degrees rarely serve on juries b/c the lawyers don't want jurors who will be able to poke holes in their arguments, but they are certainly not exempt, at least everywhere I've lived.

I have been summoned at least three times for regular or grand jury duty and have always been excused without hassle for school or because I had moved. OP, if you explain that your interviews are scheduled during this time and that skipping them has a potentially huge impact on the rest of your life, I can't imagine that they would keep you.

Some jurisdictions go out of their way to make sure professionals and white collar folk do jury duty to try and erode the perception that only the poor and unemployed get stuck with it. For example, Rudy Giuliani had to serve on a jury (on a housing related injury case) while he was the sitting mayor of NYC. You might be less likely to actually be impanneled on a jury, but as a student or physician you may have to sit in a room for a day or two waiting to be called. I've had to do jury duty as a grad student and as a lawyer in jurisdictions which rarely allow people to be excused for other than health reasons. Thus I wouldn't count on getting sprung due to interviews.

 

[bonez318ti]

Some jurisdictions go out of their way to make sure professionals and white collar folk do jury duty to try and erode the perception that only the poor and unemployed get stuck with it. For example, Rudy Giuliani had to serve on a jury (on a housing related injury case) while he was the sitting mayor of NYC. You might be less likely to actually be impanneled on a jury, but as a student or physician you may have to sit in a room for a day or two waiting to be called. I've had to do jury duty as a grad student and as a lawyer in jurisdictions which rarely allow people to be excused for other than health reasons. Thus I wouldn't count on getting sprung due to interviews.

Man, I hope you are wrong... I have plane tickets and hotel rooms booked, in addition to having sucessfully negotiated days off from my job..

Anyone know about how anal nassau county is about excuses?

 

[VienneseWaltz]

You might be less likely to actually be impanneled on a jury, but as a student or physician you may have to sit in a room for a day or two waiting to be called.

This was my point, not that white-collar citizens never serve on juries.

I've had to do jury duty as a grad student and as a lawyer in jurisdictions which rarely allow people to be excused for other than health reasons. Thus I wouldn't count on getting sprung due to interviews.

Ick. I guess it would depend on where you are in your graduate studies, but if I had not gotten out of it when I was called during grad school, it could have added a year to my education (I was still doing coursework which was offered only once a year).

Good luck, bonez.

 

[Brain]

I would just tell any judge about my "special gift." I have the ability to look at someone and tell whether or not they're guilty, just by looking at them. *Hand waving gestures* *points at defendant and screams "You're guilty!"* 😛

 

[Avenue Q]

People with advanced degrees rarely serve on juries b/c the lawyers don't want jurors who will be able to poke holes in their arguments, but they are certainly not exempt, at least everywhere I've lived.

I have been summoned at least three times for regular or grand jury duty and have always been excused without hassle for school or because I had moved. OP, if you explain that your interviews are scheduled during this time and that skipping them has a potentially huge impact on the rest of your life, I can't imagine that they would keep you.

Actually, since scientific and more complicated evidence has come to dominate the courts, they are more and more selecteing highly educated people who can understand the arguments. They'd rather have someone who knows that DNA = one person than someone who just buys everything the witness says.

In terms of getting out of it:

Go to the court house tomorrow, as soon as you can before your assigned date to report, and bring your interview date confirmations and your plane ticket and tell them that you need to reschedule because you will be out of the area and have a conflict.

New York City is widely known as one of the hardest coursts to get out of, and brining a print out of my college schedule that shows i will be out of the area works every time.

Good luck.