CA Jury Duty

Fish125
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:38:46 +0000

What my kids have done is if they will be home or available during the summer, they’ve changed the date to the beginning of the summer break. If they were going to stay at their campus over the summer, they wrote on the form that they were attending X university and would not be returning to San Diego in the next year, including the summer, except for quick breaks, and gave their college apt/dorm address as proof. The court was very understanding and helpful, and always dismissed them from service in those cases. That said, when I had jury duty on Jan 3, there were a ton of college-aged people in the jury lounge. The court was selecting jurors for two long-term trials (a 4-week one and another for 8-weeks). Anyone who couldn’t commit to that long of a trial, wrote an explanation on a form and they were all dismissed by 10 a.m.