Jury Duty Experiences

CBBBlinker
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:40:06 +0000

Way back in the day, when D was an infant, I received a notice for jury duty. At that time, in CT, there was a box on the form to check if you had small children at home you needed to care for. I checked the box and then never heard a word about jury duty again until D was a senior in HS (& S was a freshman.) I ended up serving on a civil trial that lasted 1 1/2 days – a settlement was reached. Interesting experience, but I was glad it was so short.

Just the other day I was scheduled for jury duty again, but when I checked online the night before, I received the message that I didn’t need to show up. So, now I’m off the hook for another year. I’m OK with serving on short trials, but wouldn’t really care to get pulled into a long one.