jury duty? in college?

Cardinal_Fang
Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:50:55 +0000

A year or two ago I got jury duty summonses for both state court and federal court, for the same exact week! I ended up being able to postpone the federal court summons, but I went to the state court. As a prospective juror, I sat in the courtroom watching the jury be selected. I was not interviewed, but maybe 60 others were. I had no opportunity to make inflammatory statements to get out earlier, and I didn’t see any evidence that the prospective jurors who did get interviewed were purposely making inflammatory statements. They appeared to be telling the truth. It might not be so easy to grandstand in front of a judge, when you are actually sitting there in front of a judge.

I served for two days and was, in the end, not selected. Because of that service, I didn’t have to do the jury service for the federal summons.