<p>There is no option to indicate that she is an out of county full time student.</p>
<p>They have an option for non-county resident and a separate for full time student. But for full time student it ask for a time frame within 6 months.</p>
<p>Have her call the clerk. Will she be home in CA for the summer? They will work with her. My daughter got called for duty in MA, even though she is not a resident, and they rescheduled her for the week that she was coming back to campus in the fall.</p>
<p>Oh, I just realized, she is in MA. Is that where she was called?</p>
<p>Do you mean out of state, instead of out of county?</p>
<p>My son simply called the Clerk of the Court. He explained he went to school out of state, and other than a 4 day break for Easter was unsure when he would return to FL. He was excused.</p>
<p>My son received a jury summons one week after school started. A call to the clerk took care of it. She just had me write on the summons that he was a out of town college student.</p>
<p>If she got called in MA she will probably have to serve. DS got called (in Middlesex County) and they allowed him to schedule his service over the summer, but it was still a pain in the rear. One of his suite-mates was also summoned.</p>
<p>In MA, everyone (not just students) is allowed to punt one time to another date certain. (In our family, we put down 12/23 as alternate choice, under the theory that no lawyer in his/her right mind would ever seat a jury two days before Xmas. Even if you have to go, you probably won’t have to stay long.) You are not allowed to punt the second date, tho, so college kids would have to pick a date when they would indeed be available. Also in MA, they give us a phone number to call the day before to find out if we really have to show up after all. At least 50% of the time, the recording just says “we’re good, we don’t need you, thanks for your time.” The upside of having to show up in person is that you then are excused for the next 3 yrs!</p>
<p>My oos student is a resident of WA even though she goes to school in MA. She served as a juror here in WA during her winter break. She could have been excused if she pleaded to be excused, but she was curious about the experience and “volunteered”. It was only a couple of days. Does MA pick non- residents to serve as jurors? That does not sound right.</p>
<p>[Jury</a> Duty Makes Some Students ?Angry Men? | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/10/17/jury-duty-makes-some-students-angry/]Jury”>Jury Duty Makes Some Students ‘Angry Men’ | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>POIH, it sounds from your post that she got summoned in CA. I would have her call the clerk and ask advice about her options. If she is not excused, I suggest checking the full time student box and indicating the date when she is going to be home for a break, because sunce she is registered to vote in your county, she is technically a resident of that county in CA and cannot call herself a “non-resident”. Even if she has to serve, most likely, she will be excused when she reports for her jury duty.</p>
<p>1moremom, interesting link (although the article is from 2006, but it sounds like nothing really changed). So it sounds like MA can “import” jurors from all over the country.</p>
<p>(please pardon my typos; I really wish the mobile version of CC would let us edit our posts!!)</p>
<p>BB – agree about the mobile version of CC! I ran into that last week when I was on vacation, but desperate to keep up to date here.</p>
<p>Anyway, here in CT, D was summoned last fall. Although she now goes to (grad) school in CT, it would have meant missing class for at least 1 day. So, she used the “reschedule” option to pick another date. She also picked Dec. 23 (maybe the 22nd?), figuring she wouldn’t be needed. As with other states, you can either call or check online after 5 PM the day before to see if you are needed. When she checked, she found out court had been canceled for that entire week due to the Christmas holiday. Here in CT, though, she’s only off the hook for 1 year – if you actually serve, you can’t be called for 3 years.</p>
<p>Our state is seeing fairly big cutbacks in the court system so my guess is that there is more plea-bargaining and fewer trials; thus, less of a need for jurors. Our kids attend schools in MA but they are flying under the radar in off-campus housing.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies. She was called in CA. I’ll ask her to call the clerk during the spring break. She’ll be home during summer only for 3 weeks before going on 12 week internship. I’ll let her make the decision about doing it during that time or excusing herself.</p>
<p>if it’s anything like LA county, she won’t be able to get out of it completely. But you can usually request more than one 90 day extension.</p>
<p>That is my sense too. She will probably have to reschedule for when she is home. It could be at the whim of whoever answers the phone. She will get paid a small fee to serve, so maybe she wants the spending money!</p>
<p>*** oops-- if Calif. is bankrupt, will she get paid or will she get an IOU???</p>
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<p>Here it is really small (like $5- $10) and only if you are required to come back a second day. Last time we were asked to donate it back.</p>
<p>My college kids, out of state, were not excused. Had to delay until they were on break.</p>
<p>S1 got a jury questionnaire over Winter Break – there was a box to check if one is going to school OOS. The deal here is that when you return the questionnaire, at some point in the relatively near future you’ll be called for duty. I assume at some point he’ll get another summons, and if he’s here, he’ll do it. I expect that once he graduates he’ll be changing his permanent residence, though, so it may be a while before a new state catches up with him.</p>
<p>DH got one a few weeks ago. Attorneys are not exempt from jury service here, even in our lawyer-ridden county.</p>
<p>you can delay.</p>
<p>Or you can send back an index card with a note that says “I have always wanted the chance to give someone the death penalty” and I’m sure they will not ask for your services.</p>
<p>I got summoned once but I just told them I was in college several hours away and I got excused. Haven’t been called back since.</p>
<p>I served on a jury as a 20-year-old when I was in college (over the summer). It was such a worthwhile experience to see a trial from the perspective of a juror; it is quite different from being a witness at a trial (also did that the same year) or observing a trial. If at all possible, I would encourage everyone to serve on a jury at least once in their lifetime.</p>