farkin jury duty in Foulmouth in the AM
 

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I kinda like jury duty ... got picked once for 5 days ,, Hang em :hang:.. Its interresting and our duty . Don't want all OJ jurys . Not being a wise guy .. I think to myself, alot of our generation died in Nam .. Least I can do is jury duty .. shame on those for sniveling out of it .

I know bro ... just talkin general ... no disrespect ..

I gatta go 30 miles, up to Newburyport for my civic duty on Jan 3..........

Couldn't have gotten something closer like Salem, or even Lynn???? I had already postponed from July and had requested Dec 24........... now I have to take what they give me....:rtfm:

United States District Court jury service telling me its for the entire "MONTH" of january. never shirked an never been called to sit, it could kill me $ not to work for a month.

Sounds like you are going to be part of a grand jury.

Karl, I've done duty from here in Truro to Barbstable, but Falmouth, I'd rather drive to Boston. It's like when I have to work in Chatham. It suks, there's no easy way to get to Chatham or Falmouth. I call in dead for jury duty.

Orleans is a great place for jury duty. Sign in, go home, come back to court house for a half hour, go to lunch. Plus i was selected as foreman and got to say "GUILTY AS CHARGED"

Ive been four or five times. The last time my boss asked why I didn't try to get out of it. I told him that if those kids could go to Iraq, then I could suck it up and go to JD. Glad I don't work for that jerk anymore.

Geez Karl, if I had known you were possibly going to be on the jury I would've told my lawyer to plead out now and take the inevitable!!

The old system was much more interesting.
back in '82 I got called for jury duty in downtown Boston (Suffolk Couty) and back then when you call duty it was for one month, not one day.
Needless to say, I got out of work for the month of July, and since most judges took their vacations during the summer months, I got out early a lot of times. During that month I was picked to 2 trials.
The best part was that you were paid (I believe) $50.00 a day for the duty, and I was also paid from my regular job.
Of course, now it's one day or one trial, and you only get paid if it last more than 3 days.
I have jury duty in February (got the notice a couple of weeks back), and I am not shirky my civic resposibility. I love seeing how the system ACTUALLY works, not how it works on TV.

Federal garnd jury in Boston is for eighteen months. Every Friday for eighteen months. Ouch. New a 75 year old woman who took the train in for that long a period of time.

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NBPT. is a good one to draw, I've had it twice.... beats the hell out of Lowell...been there too!

Be happy you aren't going to Brockton like I am in Jan.

Hi, Feel lucky that you are not on the other side.

Happy Holidays
Jim

very true.

Karl-I will trade you for Springfield or Holyoke......
I dont mind Jury duty itself....its more the location.

i got free of it...in a no need to show.... and we'll call you again someday.... voice message....

now JPI ain't gotta worry bout a death penalty trial anymore.:fishslap:

You been readin while MIA. :D

Only time i'd worry if it was me on trial. :hihi:

Two years ago I got called for jury duty in Orleans. 90 degrees in the shade and I was a train wreck from the night before at an office cookout. 1 out of 8 cases went to trial and guess who got picked and on top of it all I was picked jury foreman.

Interesting but scary experience as a number of my fellow jurors were not that smart. I had to have one expelled and the alternate brought in. We were all from upper Cape but sent to Orleans.

Guy down the cape last week told the judge he was a homophobic, lying racist to get out of jury duty. Judge Nickerson held him in cointempt all day in the lockup. More to follow.

I was recently scheduled for JD in New Bedford for late January and had it switched to May. I have no problem serving on a jury, but if I'm going to serve I'm heading out fishing at the end of the day. I had to go just over 3 years ago in Dedham, but was sent home. One of the guys there got out of it by telling them he would make a great juror because he can tell if someone is guilty by looking at them. I don't know if it was a ploy to get out of it, or if he was really that dumb.

So I just got selected for jury duty again! Have to go to Fall River on Aug. 1, which is a week I'm suposed to be taking off for vacation. The last one from May 2008 got pushed back to 7/31/08. Now I have to go exactly 3 years and 1 day later. They must have me on some kind of list to call every 3 years. This is the 3rd time in less than 10 years and 4th time overall for me.

The last 2 times I was picked and then dismissed when they questioned the group of us. Once because a hospital was being sued and I used to work for one and the other time because the prosecutor knew my dad, who's a defense attorney. The first time I had jury duty, they never called my group in and I was sent home.

Federal grand jury generally meets every Friday for 18 months. 30 day jury duty is being on call in the trial pool I would bet. Sorry to hear this. New a lady who was 77 at the time did grand jury in Boston for the es. ntire 18 months, taking the train into south station every day. I haven't had it in a long time. Knock on wood.

I'm up again.... June 15 in Salem

I had duty last month. Was called for Rozbury District Court in Dudley Square. I did not reschedule, or relocate. My family gave me the "What? Are you crazy of something?" and I told them that I don't care where I serve, but that I can serve as my civic duty.
Bottom line: there were 26-28 cases pending for the day and all but one settled thru a plea deal. The last one was held over for a later date. We got out by 3:00 and I met some truly interesting people as well!

Back in the 80's when I got called the first time, I spend one whole month (I think it was either June or August) having to report to the "pool". I was called for 2 cases and was foreman on the first one.

All I can say is that it sure beats the heck out of the TV court room dramas when you're actually sitting in a court room listening to the proceedings!

You can get one automatic postponement from the Commissioner of Jurors. There should be a section on your jury summons that you can fill out and send back.

I think I'll just go on 8/1. Summer is pretty slow for me at work and my boss has no problem with me taking a day off for JD. If I postpone it, I could get stuck with a day that's worse schedule wise.