This doesn't seem right to me....

[Bob Wright]

Recent mail brought this notice from my local Sheriff:

"You are notified that you have been drawn as a juror for the February Term 2023......."

My report date is March 6,2023.

Bob Wright

 

[87flht]

Hmmm

 

[hittman]

If it’s like around here …. The February term is when you’re selected.
Your term begins March 6.
Likely lasts 90 to 180 days when you can be called to serve.

 

[arfmel]

A month or so back I got a notice that I’d be on the panel for the next 90 days, for jury duty at the Federal Court in Pecos. Pecos is 100 miles from where I live. Hopefully I don’t get picked to serve.

I wouldn’t mind serving under normal circumstances, but right now I’m busy tending to my job as executor of my wife’s estate.

 

[nekvermont]

I thought the Court issued jury notices and not the sheriff.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

In Texas they don't want us old farts Yes the summons comes from the County/Court not the Sheriff


Exemptions from Jury Service
You are not required to claim an exemption from jury service.

However, you may choose to be excused if you:

• Are over 70 years of age (You may also request a permanent age 70 exemption.);

 

[pyth0n]

Recent mail brought this notice from my local Sheriff:

"You are notified that you have been drawn as a juror for the February Term 2023......."

My report date is March 6,2023.

Bob Wright

What doesn't seem right?

 

[pyth0n]

In Texas they don't want us old farts Yes the summons comes from the County/Court not the Sheriff


Exemptions from Jury Service
You are not required to claim an exemption from jury service.

However, you may choose to be excused if you:

• Are over 70 years of age (You may also request a permanent age 70 exemption.);

Same in FL. I'm 74 & exempt.

 

[Ride1949]

Yup. Geezers are exempt here in Oregon too.

 

[contender]

Kinda funny there Bob. But likely it was the term you were selected,, but not the term you'll serve.

I look at jury duty as an honor. I like to think I'm doing my part to help the judicial system actually work as it was intended.

 

[Cholo]

I been a registered voter for 47 years and have never been called to jury duty

 

[Dan in MI]

I agree with term being selection date.

I got called once many years ago. Sat in the holding room until lunch. At lunch the bailiff said anyone below a sepcific number, say 500, go to lunch. The baillif came back two more times about ten minutes apart, each time a little more emphatic that anyone under 500 go to lunch. After no one left either of those times he said. "You all can go home. You're done."

 

[GasGuzzler]

What doesn't seem right?

Same. Not sure what is weird about it. I got called several times in a row when I was in my early 20's and never got picked back when I lived in a more populated area. Since then, (25+ years), I have been called twice. Still not selected. My dad and FIL have both only been called and selected AFTER their 60th birthday...in Texas.

Depends on the case.

 

[wolfsong]

I've been summoned too many times to count, only selected once. I was the jury foreman. Interesting, to say the least.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Someone like you is probably hard to find in CA. Just sayin'...

 

[chowser51]

I've been called 3 times in the past ten years. Did two complete trials. They don't care anymore if you're a cop or lawyer, you still gotta sit.

 

[Ride1949]

Kinda funny there Bob. But likely it was the term you were selected,, but not the term you'll serve.

I look at jury duty as an honor. I like to think I'm doing my part to help the judicial system actually work as it was intended.

I got the notice three times. Spent most of the day at the courthouse. They rejected me on age twice and the first time I'd just had back surgery and couldn't sit for long. Too bad, because two cases were very interesting.

 

[wolfsong]

Someone like you is probably hard to find in CA. Just sayin'...

Thanks! (I think...)

 

[dannyd]

I been a registered voter for 47 years and have never been called to jury duty

Guess what will be in Monday's mail.

 

[BROKENBEAR]

I got a federal summons a month ago and and a form to apply for deferral via a doctors excuse ..

I told them fine.. looking forward to it.. just keep me near to door to the bathroom as i go often!

Got my dismissed letter 7 days after I answered the "call"

 

[harley08]

My wife got called for Grand Jury duty. It lasted about 6 months.

 

[hittman]

I served for the first time about age 40. Then got called 3 more times in 2 years. I talked with the “powers to be” and they agreed to remove my name for a few years as I’d done enough. They swear it’s “luck of the draw”. One man on my jury was almost 80 and had lived in this town his entire life. It was the first time he’d ever been called.

My wife has still never been called here but did serve on a Federal criminal trial 100-plus miles away. That was a pain. Trial lasted 5 to 6 weeks, then again months later for the penalty phase, etc. Didn’t pay very well and left me as a business owner and single dad of three.

 

[Snake45]

I been a registered voter for 47 years and have never been called to jury duty

Now you've done gone and tempted the Irony Gods.

 

[Cholo]

↑ I think I've passed the age of consent, but I'd still serve LOL

 

[Fox Mike]

I been a registered voter for 47 years and have never been called to jury duty

Linda is somewhat younger than I am and has been called to duty four times. She now has a permanent exemption due to health issues. I am just shy of 86 and have never been called.

 

[Mike J]

My senior year of high school they came to the school & did a voter registration drive. Not long after I graduated I was called. Most of the people there were people I graduated with. We sat on a trial & convicted a guy. Then every two years or so after that I got called until I moved out of that county. It is very frustrating sitting in a court house all week losing money & not even doing anything productive. The last time I was called they were going through the panel questioning everyone. They were asking, "Have you ever had any experience with the police?". The next question was, "Would you classify that encounter as a positive or negative experience?" When they got to me I answered the first question, "Yes." When they asked the second question I replied, "That depends." They asked what I meant. I told them that depended on whether they were referring to when I called them or when they took me to jail. Struck! I got to leave. Haven't been back since.

 

[jimbo1096]

Same in Louisiana about the exemption over 70. And ours come from the court system not from the sheriff or the city PD. I’ve been called four or five times but every time it comes to the call in number the day before and I’ve always had the court cancelled

 

[eveled]

About once a month I come inside with the mail and holding up an official looking letter tell my wife she has jury duty.

It never fails to get her.

We’ve both been called at least 6 times and have never been on a case.

My father and I have the same name while I was still living at home we received a summons for a grand jury. I say we because there was no suffix. No way of knowing who was picked.

My father went around and around with them trying to figure it out. They finally said if one of us didn’t show up they’d issue an arrest warrant. My dad asked whose name would be on the warrant? The clerk finally said forget it you are excused.

 

[SamV]

I have been called too many times. I received a notice again for March. I just don’t think that I am up for it anymore. I have lost count of the number of times I have served jury duty. Probably somewhere around 18 to 20. Part of the reason is that the city has gone from 800,000 people to 300,000 people with a population that has high percentage of ineligible people for jury duty. The other reason that I did not know for over twenty years was that I was listed twice on the jury list. I had one name on my city tax rolls and another on my driver’s license. One was a full legal name and the other was a shortened nick name. So I was getting called about every year and a half. I didn’t catch it until one week I received a jury call twice in one week, then noticed the two different names.
But still, the city says that the average time between jury service is two to three years.
I have seen a profound decline in the jury pool, with a lot of disrespect for the process. I have lost a lot of confidence that justice is being served. I also can’t stand the stress of murder trials and other physical altercations and abuse. I am not sure what I will do this time, but I feel like I have done my fair share over the last 40 years.

 

[KWend54]

Don’t get me wrong, I believe it is our civic duty, and I have sat on one jury and was the alternate on another. Those times in my life I was in a position to serve. The last two times I got notice to report my life was such that I couldn’t afford the time financially nor was it feasible to serve. I immediately sent back in their questionnaire …… “I realize it is my civic duty to serve on the panel you require me to show up for 6/22/22 but at this time I will be unable to serve. If you still require that I be there I must inform you that I will not be impartial as my attention will be on my responsibilities I have been called away from”
Got a letter back immediately saying I was excused, both times.