<p>You asked if she can “transfer” the responsibility. The answer is no. Jury duty is tied to a specific location: a county, a state or a federal district. It can’t be transferred across state, county or federal districts. </p>
<p>I am the queen of jury duty. I’ve been summoned more than a dozen times in my life for county and federal jurisdictions. I don’t think I’ve ever been summoned for state court. I forget. I’ve had to actually report to the court 5 or 6 times. Two of those times were while I was a student.</p>
<p>Note that you might get summonned to either federal or state court, and the procedures might be different. My daughter was excused with a phone call (state court), while for my son there was more paperwork (federal court). Both courts were in Maryland.</p>
<p>No one likes jury duty but having intelligent people in a jury pool is an important part of making our society work. If you had some case before a court wouldnt you hope that you had a jury of people listening and paying attention to the arguments being made on your behalf?</p>
<p>Its gross the way some people are full bore with their bumper stickers and uglying up the town with political signs but scream like cats when they are called for jury duty and could do some actual good. If you want to feel bad about your fellow citizens sit through a jury selection and see some of the excuses people used to try to get out of jury service. No wonder judges are so exasperated. </p>
<p>This is not about the OP’s cases, just venting in general. My understanding is that if you are not residing in the county when you are summoned you are excused.</p>
<p>In Solano County California I seem to remember collge students are specifically not excluded, but given an option on the summons to pick a time frame no more than a year away. I believe you can do it on the phone too. My son missed his rescheduled date, and in checking out what we could, we learned he was on some , list. My D had an employer tell her to reschedule, which she did, and it ended up being close enough to the start of school to cause a potential problem. Here, you have to be available for TWO days before you are off the hook.</p>
<p>As I said, much easier to get yourself dismissed than going thru all kinds of hoops avoiding it. Any outrageous statement will do the trick. Do not have to be rude, show great respect and be polite. They might even mark you for not being summoned any more.</p>
<p>^Apparently they did not know. I did not mean to show that you are mentally ill / ■■■■■■■■. I mean to show that your personal believes will prevent you from the correct judgement, that your judgement will be extreme under all circumstances while showing them your full mental capacity. One thing is the state of your mind and another thing is your value system. The value system that you should show should be completely out of synch with the current law, be as far outside as possible.</p>
<p>DD gets summoned every year for federal jury service, she has lived abroad for years, but we can go online and confirm her inability to service. It is odd that some people get called repeatedly and others rarely.</p>
<p>Grad student DD was called and allowed to defer until a more convenient time, that will be this summer.</p>
<p>“Apparently they did not know. I did not mean to show that you are mentally ill / ■■■■■■■■. I mean to show that your personal believes will prevent you from the correct judgement, that your judgement will be extreme under all circumstances while showing them your full mental capacity.”</p>
<p>I did not recall or assume they acted “mentally ill/■■■■■■■■”. I gave them the benefit of the doubt, that they were as crafty as you or I, since their expertise in understanding how people think is not limited to the “mentally ill/■■■■■■■■”.</p>
<p>I read “Jury Selection: Myths and Realities About Jurors” and an funny personal account called “The 9 Best Ways to Get Out of Jury Duty”. I think they are blogs, so no links.</p>
<p>For those ignoring the summons, there was one judge here who got tired of people ignoring them, so he had the state troopers go and get everyone who didn’t show up. I think they were fined and threatened with jail time.</p>
<p>I’ve only been called once. I found a summons in my mailbox after I had moved to another state (went back to check the place before the lease expired and checked my mail). So I just called someone (don’t recall who) and said that I no longer lived in the state. Have never been called since. My guess is that there aren’t very many jury trials in my state - I think that the vast majority go the plea-bargaining route. Our court system has had a lot of cutbacks over the years with a reduction in local courts which means that the lawyers, police, witnesses, etc. have to travel greater distances to get to court and this probably encourages plea-bargaining.</p>
A very small percentage of trials are potential death penalty cases. Many of them aren’t even criminal cases - they’re civil cases where someone slipped on a banana peel or had a car accident or something and many of the criminal cases are relatively petty.</p>
<p>Regardless of the showboating up front, apparently most people won’t actually make outrageous statements once in the courtroom in front of the judge and will actually be honest in their responses. At least that’s what I’ve read.</p>
<p>None of that matters in the circumstance of many college students though because in order to give outrageous answers you actually have to show up for the jury duty which means the inconvenience, if one, has already taken place.</p>
<p>The different courts have different procedures but a number of the courts in California don’t excuse someone simply because they’re a student. The court is usually good about allowing for deferring the court date to summer, spring, or winter break. It’s usually not thrilling to the student to spend part of spring break at the courthouse but that’s what many students do. I’ve also seen where they purposely try to get students on a short case - one that’ll likely end within 5 days or less.</p>
<p>The last time I showed up for jury duty I calculated, based on observing the number of people called for duty and the number actually impaneled on a jury, that there was about an 18% chance of being impaneled. It’s not an efficient system at all - way more people are required to show up than end up on a jury.</p>
<p>OP - The jury summons likely contains info about excuses, postponement, etc. Your D can also just browse to the particular court’s website and likely find out any info she needs regarding the duty. She can also just call them. Remember, no matter what people post here in response to your thread, the particular court she was called to might have a different procedure - they vary even within the same state.</p>
<p>And/or he might cite you for perjury. Prospective jurors are under oath during voir dire.</p>
<p>MiamiDAP, courtroom judges didn’t just fall of the turnip truck. They see prospective jurors every single day who employ your strategy. They’re pretty adept at seeing through faked extremism and other ploys. </p>
<p>I admit I don’t understand the eagerness to get out of jury duty (except of course, when there is a genuine reason, like the OP’s student’s distance). I consider jury service to be an obligation and an honor. Yes, it’s a little inconvenient for a short period of time. But IMO it’s very important for all of us to have access to a decent jury if we should ever need it, even at the cost of their inconvenience.</p>
<p>Twenty some years ago I had jury duty- bummer when the per diem is less than childcare costs! For I think it was 6 months I could be called up every other month up to a certain number of times. Got first summons a week before my 6 months was up- and we had a vacation planned the next week. They knew I was a physician, the case was about getting an insurance company to pay for some injury. When asked I was able to make my statement about deep pockets and awards- was not chosen. Talked to one of the lawyers (knew his physician father) afterwards and if I had made the statement during the trial it could have been a mistrial- I got to do my bit to influence the jury and not have to be on the trial.</p>
<p>Last summer we voted in a recall election on our way out of state (it didn’t help, darn). A couple of months later my name came up for jury duty there- the notice got forwarded to new state- I was able to tell them online I couldn’t serve 'cause I was no longer a resident.</p>
<p>Have read local papers here and sometimes judges get tired of no shows and do prosecute. It is a legal obligation but randomly picked so some get none while others get multiple calls.</p>
<p>One of my coworkers way-back-when was called for jury duty but she had childcare responsibilities and called the clerk and was excused. I think that’s fairly reasonable - taking care of kids is a lot of work - unless you can bring them into the courtroom.</p>
<p>In our state, they say that if you don’t show for jury duty, they will issue a warrant for your arrest. Don’t know if they actually do. H just got called a couple of weeks ago. They received a pamphlet saying that the potential juror list is culled from property tax records, DL records, and voter records.</p>