I had fun today!

[lynchmob]

!st day of jury duty.
Lotsandlotsandlots of just sitting around doing nothing.Sat thru 2 jury selections and didnt get picked,although, for the 2nd trial,I had to tell the judge that I knew one of the policeman that was on the witness list He excused me from that trial.
They pay $20 a day-I got a $15 parking ticket so I made a grand total of 5 bucks today.
Gotta go back tomorrow at 10pm-we get to see the courthouse basement..um,I mean the JURY PANEL ROOM
All the cases are criminal drug casesOh,and they temporarily confiscated my Swiss Army knife-didnt mind,they gave it back at the end of the day-just doing my part for Homeland security
lynch

Take a book tomorrow..

[Theophylact]

You're lucky -- in DC they don't give your Swiss Army knife back, they just confiscate it.

[NeoStarO1]

I agree with surreal on that. take a book or something to keep you occupied.

I don't like jury duties, I always manage to get out of it. you get paid by far more than us in oregon, its a paltry 8 bucks a day here. and I just send them a nice letter that I will need the services of an interpreter (cost between 50 to 175 per hour depending on the terps certificate level and experience and demand) Courts don't like paying that for one person. so I always get excused.

Thank you very much bye bye.

I can't figure out why they pay such poor rates for making people leave thier jobs and whatever in exchange for that other than community service.

NeoStar

[draboo]

when i went on jury duty we got passes so we wouldnt get any parking tickets. see if you can get the ticket"taken care of" . seems like you should be able to.

We get paid days off work for jury duty here in South Aussie. Not paid by the courts AFAIK, just keep getting paid whet we normally do. I think it's a law or something, cause it's both public and private sectors. There's some rebate or something for employers I think...

Never done it myself, but quite a few of my co-workers have.

Cheers
Mick

[Theophylact]

In DC, the only parking near the DC Superior Court is reserved for police and court officers. You get $2.00 per day for travel expenses -- when the cheapest fare on Metro or bus is $1.10. If your employer doesn't pay your wages while you're on jury duty, you get $30/day. Not too bad if you're unemployed or retired, but it's about 60% of minimum wage. You can hardly get excused for anything: age, disability, occupation -- law enforcement people have to serve, too. You can count on getting called up every two years. Oh, and then there's the Federal court system. Jury duty in the District Court is separate from jury duty in Federal court -- so you may have just finished one stint and have to start another. This despite the fact that the judges and prosecutors are all Federal appointees; the District's judiciary is not under its own control, any more than its laws are (they all have to be approved by Congress). The District's license plates?

[TheBurningCat]

I'm not old enough for jury dutie..

[NeoStarO1]

You can hardly get excused for anything: age, disability, occupation

You can get excused depending on the disability. if the disabilty requires the court to provide services to you to fully partisiapate in the jury they can and will excuse you one way or another. I usally ask to be excused and if that is not a possiblity I request an interpreter to be on call everyday that im suppose to be in court, this means if im on call sitting here, they have to pay the interpreter regardless for being on call for that day and no schduduling is done for that intperter elsewhere. they get paid thier normal wages. and it far passes what the courts are willing to pay for services expecially if the court turns out to be long and dragged out.

[Knothead]

What gets my goat is how these sleazebag lawyers can bring a suit to court, and demand a jury, and call all these citizens to set their lives aside, often for many days on end, for what is often a baseless case. (I'm not talking about capitol cases here, just civil cases.)

Whether the suit has any merit or not, here's the net result:

The lawyer makes a PILE of $$$.

The honest citizen, who just got taken advantage of, gets $20/day.

Plus a parking ticket.



We need to kill all the lawyers.