Jury Duty --again

futurenyustudent
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:31:27 +0000

Look the judge straight in the eye and say something along the lines of “Judge, there is absolutely no possible way that I could ever be impartial or competently consider the facts of the case to come to a well-reasoned conclusion of guilt or innocence when I’m sitting in a courtroom with exams two weeks away hanging over my head, for which I should be spending all night in the library studying.”

That should get you off pretty quick…I mean it’s true, nobody should be reasonably expected to pay attention to the trial when they have finals hanging over their heads, they’d want to get it over with as soon as possible regardless of outcome.