J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, John Young wrote:
Don't ever respond to a jury summons by showing up or calling in. If you do then you'll forever be in the sucker-responsive data base.
Well, as the button says, "Any 12 people who can't get off jury duty aren't *my* peers" Aside from FIJA being an important political statement, if you're not interested in that kind of thing, bringing their literature with you to hand out to your fellow potential jurors (*before* you're hauled into the courtroom for a specific trial, so as not to be harassed for jury tampering) is generally a way to get yourself out of the process. But yes, otherwise, whatever it was that Tim forgot about, no, I don't remember that stuff, unless they ask really precise questions during voir dire. The last time I was in the potential-jurors pool, it was a case I'd have been tossed out of instantly during voir dire if they'd gotten to me (they went through about 50-60 people, and I was about #75 on the list.) The prosecutor was making sure that all of the potential jurors understood that police never lied, and that just because the accused was a 5-foot-tall 90-pound quiet-looking woman didn't mean that she couldn't have interfered with a cop during a family dispute situation, and I'd have had to answer the question about whether I'd been arrested for or convicted of a crime with something like "Well, the police agreed to drop the charges of interfering with an officer in return for me agreeing not to sue them"; the defense lawyer might not have liked me either :-)