Jury Duty --again

ucsd_ucla_dad
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:04:22 +0000

coskat:

I’m surprised they made you serve that long when you’d lose income after a reasonable 10 days employer paid. I haven’t seen that happen around here (but maybe it does) but I think the court can if they really want. However, any public employee - teachers, city trash pickup, parks, city admin, postal employees, as well as most people working for big defense contractor companies (lots of them around here) don’t have a limit on the number of days of employer paid so I think they grab a lot of those along with retired and otherwise unemployed to serve on the long cases.

Also, they have students self-identify so they can try to get them on juries that’ll last less than 5 days. That’s nice because that way they don’t get stuck on a long trial. The downside is that ‘most’ of the trials in county superior court are less than 5 days so the students end up more likely to be picked to go on a jury.