Jury Duty --again

ucsd_ucla_dad
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:09:13 +0000

Look the judge straight in the eye and say something along the lines of …

But even if that worked it just gets one out of that one trial, not dismissed from jury duty, and they still would have had to show up and spend the day. In this (new) OP’s case it sounds like the D is currently in China and otherwise at the other end of the state so just showing up for the duty is the burdensome part whether she ends up on a jury or not. Besides, I doubt very many college students would actually do that when facing the judge even if they wanted to.

One thing I’ve noticed so far anecdotally is that the lawyers don’t seem to like engineers on the jury. I’ve heard they don’t really want someone who thinks more logically than emotionally. So far I’ve always been dismissed from the jury even when I thought I was a more likely candidate than some of the others they kept.