Getting out of jury duty (1 Viewer)

[Zow]

Currently sitting in a court room waiting to be called upstairs for voir dire. AMA?

Can you be fair and impartial?

 

[Tecumseh]

Currently sitting in a court room waiting to be called upstairs for voir dire. AMA?

Can you be fair and impartial?

Don’t know. I’d like to think that I can. We all have biases. Curious what the questions will be…

 

[BobbyLayne]

Jury duty…

Think I had 3 notices in my first 5 years of living in Brooklyn - was always dismissed or didn’t have to do my civic duty

Not been called in the last 21 years

Strange but not not complaining

 

[Tecumseh]

Just finished up. Murder trial. I’ll know if I was picked either later today or tomorrow morning.

 

[Phil Elliott]

Currently sitting in a court room waiting to be called upstairs for voir dire. AMA?

Can you be fair and impartial?

Don’t know. I’d like to think that I can. We all have biases. Curious what the questions will be…

"With your biases, do you think you can be fair based on just the evidence and the law presented"?

 

[Tecumseh]

So I ended up being selected as a juror. Trial lasted four days, and was pretty much a no-brainer. Only points of contention were in regard to whether the accused had a reasonable expectation that he was allowed in his ex-girlfriend’s home at the time of the murder, and whether the murder was a “crime of passion” vs malice murder.
We found him guilty on all counts. Found out later that the accused was also a convicted child molester, and shouldn’t have been in the home anyway since there was a minor living there.
Very interesting experience. A huge chunk of time was later explained by the DA as really being procedural to make sure their ducks were in a row for appellate court.
One thing that seemed a little odd was that the DA and the PD made themselves available to us after the trial for questions/critiques. Almost seemed like they needed Yelp reviews, but it was good to get some questions answered that didn’t necessarily have bearing on the case.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Which state? In CA apparently nothing happens if you don't show up.

I get jury duty like clockwork every three years and I show up and they're very serious about it.

This blows my mind - never been called for jury duty, nor has my wife, tmk.

 

[Phil Elliott]

So I ended up being selected as a juror. Trial lasted four days, and was pretty much a no-brainer. Only points of contention were in regard to whether the accused had a reasonable expectation that he was allowed in his ex-girlfriend’s home at the time of the murder, and whether the murder was a “crime of passion” vs malice murder.
We found him guilty on all counts. Found out later that the accused was also a convicted child molester, and shouldn’t have been in the home anyway since there was a minor living there.
Very interesting experience. A huge chunk of time was later explained by the DA as really being procedural to make sure their ducks were in a row for appellate court.
One thing that seemed a little odd was that the DA and the PD made themselves available to us after the trial for questions/critiques. Almost seemed like they needed Yelp reviews, but it was good to get some questions answered that didn’t necessarily have bearing on the case.

The two jury trials I was on, both the DA and defense lawyers made themselves available to the jurors for questions, insights on how we perceived their presentations, and asked for feedback.

 

[Zow]

So I ended up being selected as a juror. Trial lasted four days, and was pretty much a no-brainer. Only points of contention were in regard to whether the accused had a reasonable expectation that he was allowed in his ex-girlfriend’s home at the time of the murder, and whether the murder was a “crime of passion” vs malice murder.
We found him guilty on all counts. Found out later that the accused was also a convicted child molester, and shouldn’t have been in the home anyway since there was a minor living there.
Very interesting experience. A huge chunk of time was later explained by the DA as really being procedural to make sure their ducks were in a row for appellate court.
One thing that seemed a little odd was that the DA and the PD made themselves available to us after the trial for questions/critiques. Almost seemed like they needed Yelp reviews, but it was good to get some questions answered that didn’t necessarily have bearing on the case.

The two jury trials I was on, both the DA and defense lawyers made themselves available to the jurors for questions, insights on how we perceived their presentations, and asked for feedback.

Yep. I’ll speak more to it later but this is quite common.