Jury Duty

bcw716 · 07-30-2015, 08:48 PM

I've been sitting on a jury all week & my time ended today. Anyone ever sat on a jury? If so, what kind of crime & guilty or innocent? If guilty, what kind of sentence did the defendant get?

This was my first time(only other time I got called I was in college and ended up exempt) & the whole process was really interesting to go through. It's not something I'd want to do every day but once we actually got past the vetting process and to the trial it was neat watching everything unfold.

corndog · 07-30-2015, 08:57 PM

I have been on a jury in:

Traffic court - man driving wrong way on freeway and fought it
Civil Court - man sued a bus company for injuries sustained in a 5 mph accident (he lost)
Criminal Court - man murdered his wife and claimed that she accidentally shot herself twice... in the head. He was found guilty.

EB31 · 07-30-2015, 08:58 PM

Never have been...and never will.

CC_123 · 07-30-2015, 08:59 PM

Ive never done jury duty. I am 22 and would love to do it though. For my business law class in college we had to sit in on, I think, 20 hours of court and then write a paper on it and I found the sessions of court very interesting and fascinating and ever since I have wanted to do jury duty.

IronMonkey415 · 07-30-2015, 09:06 PM

I get letters in the mail but never attended one.

I heard that we can pretend to be racist and they will not pick you.

seabass97166 · 07-30-2015, 09:15 PM

A few years ago my group was called in because they needed to select
a few alternate jurors. While I was sitting there watching the lawyers ask some questions to to the first couple people - I glanced at the Jury and low And behold...one of the jurors was none other than Tom Hanks! Only in LA....

bcw716 · 07-30-2015, 09:15 PM

This case ended up being for a home invasion/robbery of an elderly woman. He beat her up pretty bad & stole about 7500 bucks. Him & his family tried to play the system and have a cousin confess to the crime for a probated sentence(since he's a first time offender). After he found out probation was off the table because he would've been charged with the aggravated robbery & perjury for lying during the grand jury, he changed his mind. The defendant had a drug charge & DUI so his minimum sentence would've been 5 yrs in the pen. We ended up giving him 60yrs. He's not eligible for parole until 30 have been served.

bcw716 · 07-30-2015, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by corndog

I have been on a jury in:

Criminal Court - man murdered his wife and claimed that she accidentally shot herself twice... in the head. He was found guilty.

He probably should've rethought his story after the 2nd shot. Luckily he was stupid.

LRV · 07-30-2015, 10:19 PM

Pete Schweddy · 07-30-2015, 10:27 PM

Thought this thread was gonna be about the Pauly Shore movie.

NickM · 07-31-2015, 12:01 AM

Got called a few months ago. Was put in the pool for a DUI case. I was defendant's peremptory challenge #1. Service done until the next time they call me.

GoBeavs · 07-31-2015, 12:54 AM

Recently got a notice myself. My time is in a couple weeks. Served once before on a lame case where the family basically charged their adult daughter with trespassing so the state would pay for her drug addiction treatment.

Ray27Ray52 · 07-31-2015, 01:29 AM

I have only been called in once, but didn't serve on a jury. I was there from around 8:30 in the morning until about 3pm and not a single person was called in to a courtroom. We all watched 3 movies and were sent home.

Clarka3 · 07-31-2015, 03:49 AM

never been called. will serve if called, but i suspect i'm too smart to be selected (i.e. one lawyer will rule me out)

chitownbears22 · 07-31-2015, 04:18 AM

I have gotten two notices, didn't show up. Nothing happened.

Ray27Ray52 · 07-31-2015, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by chitownbears22

I have gotten two notices, didn't show up. Nothing happened.

Wait, what?

corndog · 07-31-2015, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by chitownbears22

I have gotten two notices, didn't show up. Nothing happened.

I wouldn't be going around telling people that.
That's embarrassing...

Whodatiz · 07-31-2015, 06:26 AM

Yeah, I'm sure that's it.

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Originally Posted by Clarka3

never been called. will serve if called, but i suspect i'm too smart to be selected (i.e. one lawyer will rule me out)

Semifan1 · 07-31-2015, 06:34 AM

Ive gotten the letter 2 times, but because of my injury from the service I can't sit for a long period of time so I get excused.

chitownbears22 · 07-31-2015, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by corndog

I wouldn't be going around telling people that.
That's embarrassing...

May have purposely misled people.....I was overseas and unavailable due to an approved reason.

But just so people know, not showing up rarely will impact you. The system is screwed up to a point where it is hard to track, and it would take too many resources to really crack down.

chitownbears22 · 07-31-2015, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Ray27Ray52

Wait, what?

Didn't show up because I was overseas and has an authorized reason not to be there. But no one checked up on why I didn't show up because it would cost a city too much money to have a process in place.

ssbledsoe · 07-31-2015, 07:41 AM

I was selected for duty once during my residency. I was given an exemption due to being 8 hours away...

I'm fascinated by some of the comments, though. However, none are surprising...

Ray27Ray52 · 07-31-2015, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by chitownbears22

Didn't show up because I was overseas and has an authorized reason not to be there. But no one checked up on why I didn't show up because it would cost a city too much money to have a process in place.

Oh, so you left out important details to elicit a response from other people. Well played I suppose. Thanks for wasting our time.

BostonNut · 07-31-2015, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by bcw716

This case ended up being for a home invasion/robbery of an elderly woman. He beat her up pretty bad & stole about 7500 bucks. Him & his family tried to play the system and have a cousin confess to the crime for a probated sentence(since he's a first time offender). After he found out probation was off the table because he would've been charged with the aggravated robbery & perjury for lying during the grand jury, he changed his mind. The defendant had a drug charge & DUI so his minimum sentence would've been 5 yrs in the pen. We ended up giving him 60yrs. He's not eligible for parole until 30 have been served.

Probably not the best idea to put this out there so soon after the trial...

chitownbears22 · 07-31-2015, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Ray27Ray52

Oh, so you left out important details to elicit a response from other people. Well played I suppose. Thanks for wasting our time.

It was a way to talk about how stupid the system is, for instance... Could you imagine going through financial hardships due to jury duty, it happens. Jurors gets paid like $20 a day for jury duty. There are people that have sat on long-duration juries and have had houses foreclosed, jobs lost, and savings depleted. What a great process that can ruin a person's life.

So it is an underfunded concept, and being underfunded can allow people to just not even go, and the system doesn't catch it. I skipped legally, but it would be very easily to skip jury duty if you just didn't want to get effed by the system.

07-30-2015, 08:57 PM	#2
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CC_123 Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: United States Posts: 21,388 CC_123	Ive never done jury duty. I am 22 and would love to do it though. For my business law class in college we had to sit in on, I think, 20 hours of court and then write a paper on it and I found the sessions of court very interesting and fascinating and ever since I have wanted to do jury duty. __________________ ALWAYS LOOKING FOR RARE ERIC DECKER (NFL), BOBBY JACKSON (NBA), AMIR COFFEY (NBA). ALSO VIKINGS CONTENDERS AUTOS! CARDS FT/FS https://www.flickr.com/photos/150768054@N07/albums/with/72157680856431204

07-30-2015, 09:15 PM	#7
bcw716 Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Texas Posts: 2,284	This case ended up being for a home invasion/robbery of an elderly woman. He beat her up pretty bad & stole about 7500 bucks. Him & his family tried to play the system and have a cousin confess to the crime for a probated sentence(since he's a first time offender). After he found out probation was off the table because he would've been charged with the aggravated robbery & perjury for lying during the grand jury, he changed his mind. The defendant had a drug charge & DUI so his minimum sentence would've been 5 yrs in the pen. We ended up giving him 60yrs. He's not eligible for parole until 30 have been served. __________________ PC: Cowboys, Rangers, Mavs, Andy Dalton, TCU players http://sportscardalbum.com/u/bcw716 http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/bcw716/library/

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07-30-2015, 08:48 PM	#1
bcw716 Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Texas Posts: 2,284	Jury Duty I've been sitting on a jury all week & my time ended today. Anyone ever sat on a jury? If so, what kind of crime & guilty or innocent? If guilty, what kind of sentence did the defendant get? This was my first time(only other time I got called I was in college and ended up exempt) & the whole process was really interesting to go through. It's not something I'd want to do every day but once we actually got past the vetting process and to the trial it was neat watching everything unfold. __________________ PC: Cowboys, Rangers, Mavs, Andy Dalton, TCU players http://sportscardalbum.com/u/bcw716 http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/bcw716/library/

07-30-2015, 08:58 PM	#3
EB31 Banned Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,314	Never have been...and never will.

07-30-2015, 09:06 PM	#5
IronMonkey415 Banned Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 44,118 ironmonkeyfromsf	I get letters in the mail but never attended one. I heard that we can pretend to be racist and they will not pick you.

07-30-2015, 09:15 PM	#6
seabass97166 Banned Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 10,685	A few years ago my group was called in because they needed to select a few alternate jurors. While I was sitting there watching the lawyers ask some questions to to the first couple people - I glanced at the Jury and low And behold...one of the jurors was none other than Tom Hanks! Only in LA....

07-31-2015, 12:01 AM	#11
NickM Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 12,353	Got called a few months ago. Was put in the pool for a DUI case. I was defendant's peremptory challenge #1. Service done until the next time they call me. __________________ 1st superfractor hit by RK Collectibles. 2014 Bowman Chrome Mini BB Chris Kohler. "What do we want?" "Time travel." "And when do we want it?" "It's irrelevant."

07-31-2015, 12:54 AM	#12
GoBeavs Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Corvallis, OR Posts: 4,961 flow20 joeflow	Recently got a notice myself. My time is in a couple weeks. Served once before on a lame case where the family basically charged their adult daughter with trespassing so the state would pay for her drug addiction treatment. __________________ I collect all Oregon State alumni.

07-31-2015, 01:29 AM	#13
Ray27Ray52 Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Posts: 22,676	I have only been called in once, but didn't serve on a jury. I was there from around 8:30 in the morning until about 3pm and not a single person was called in to a courtroom. We all watched 3 movies and were sent home.

07-31-2015, 03:49 AM	#14
Clarka3 Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 17,877 Clarka3 Clarka3	never been called. will serve if called, but i suspect i'm too smart to be selected (i.e. one lawyer will rule me out) __________________ Luke Kuechly Collector pending: w8lifter28 (custom), Don't ask me how much I want to offer. Come with a price in mind. If I don't want it or think it's worth that, I will let you know.

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chitownbears22 Banned Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 8,689	I have gotten two notices, didn't show up. Nothing happened.

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07-31-2015, 07:41 AM	#22
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