CA Jury Duty

momsquad
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 18:26:11 +0000

When my daughter was summoned I called and told them she was not living at our address anymore, and provided her campus apartment address (3 hours away). They excused her from local jury service, but sent her a summons for federal grand jury service in Los Angeles, 2 hours from her campus (during the school year). She did not respond to the summons, and moved out of her campus apartment before the reporting date. She has not received another summons since, and that was about 4 years ago.

In my 27 years in California I have received a summons about every 2 years, got called in for jury duty about every four years and seated on a panel three times. Each time the judge asked whether any full-time students were present and excused them right away. The judge and attorneys do not want unwilling jurors on the panel, unless a student really wants an opportunity to serve as a juror it should be possible to get excused.