farkin jury duty in Foulmouth in the AM

[fishonnelsons]

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!!

[FishermanTim]

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.

[Swimmer]

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.