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Yaaay! No more jury duty for 3 yrs ... food for thought
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 484406" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I have NEVER once had to serve on a jury but I'd almost like to, just for the experience. When I lived in Florida the county pulled names at random from the list of registered voters and even though I had been registered ever since I was old enough, my name never came up. One of my co-workers though seemed to get called up constantly and we thought it was hysterical! He was a computer programmer whose previous job had been with the county ... he was the one who had <u>designed</u> the program that selected the names from the lists of registered voters! <em>His own program</em> was calling him for jury duty over and over again!</p><p></p><p>Now I live in this little rural county in Tennessee and we don't have that many jury trials. Every six months they call up as many people as will fit in the court house and draw names until they have enough people to make up two big jury panels, each of which will serve for three months, the first so-many names called will be the grand jury. Then when they are going to have a jury trial, they call and tell you when to report to the court house. The attorneys then pick the jury members from these pools of people. I've been called several times but was almost automatically excluded every time when they started questioning. I worked for the Dept. of Correction for 24 years - the defense attorneys didn't like that. And half of my family is in law enforcement. They don't like that either! If we ever had a big family reunion, it would include multiple city police officers, deputy sheriffs, state troopers, a retired police chief, and even an FBI agent!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 484406, member: 1883"] I have NEVER once had to serve on a jury but I'd almost like to, just for the experience. When I lived in Florida the county pulled names at random from the list of registered voters and even though I had been registered ever since I was old enough, my name never came up. One of my co-workers though seemed to get called up constantly and we thought it was hysterical! He was a computer programmer whose previous job had been with the county ... he was the one who had [U]designed[/U] the program that selected the names from the lists of registered voters! [I]His own program[/I] was calling him for jury duty over and over again! Now I live in this little rural county in Tennessee and we don't have that many jury trials. Every six months they call up as many people as will fit in the court house and draw names until they have enough people to make up two big jury panels, each of which will serve for three months, the first so-many names called will be the grand jury. Then when they are going to have a jury trial, they call and tell you when to report to the court house. The attorneys then pick the jury members from these pools of people. I've been called several times but was almost automatically excluded every time when they started questioning. I worked for the Dept. of Correction for 24 years - the defense attorneys didn't like that. And half of my family is in law enforcement. They don't like that either! If we ever had a big family reunion, it would include multiple city police officers, deputy sheriffs, state troopers, a retired police chief, and even an FBI agent! [/QUOTE]
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