FreePizzaDay
06.28.10 | Sorry in advance for all the bitching. Just not looking forward to this. |
Satellite
06.28.10 | Show up in a Princess Leia costume a la Liz Lemmon. |
PayneTiger777
06.28.10 | You didn't find a way to get out of it? I had my postponed twice and I have to go again on July 22. I'm just going to tell them that I'm a student and I need to work in order to help pay off my tuition. |
Satellite
06.28.10 | I got summoned literally like a week after I turned 18. The case ended up being settled before it reached court, though. |
Dryden
06.28.10 | cool |
FreePizzaDay
06.28.10 | Well, originally they scheduled me for final week, but obviously I had to postpone. I have no good excuse now. I could have lied, but I won't feel like doing it next month either. |
Relinquished
06.28.10 | I hate court, brings bad memories. At least you'll have Stephen King and Cult of Luna, to me those would be enough. |
bloc
06.28.10 | Skip it |
foreverendeared
06.28.10 | I would definitely not skip it unless you want to get hit with a big fine and/or get arrested. |
FreePizzaDay
06.28.10 | I did the math: 35 hours of court/sitting around over 5 days. 20 dollars a day for five days, $100. 100/35 = $2.86/hour.
In other words, about as much as a sweat shop worker. |
Disconnected
06.28.10 | Someone should sue the government for paying so little money to the jury. |
Yordy
06.28.10 | lol apparently the court system is exempt from minimum wage laws. That sucks really bad. |
EyesWideShut
06.28.10 | jury duty for me was a major pain in the ass. if its just a summon dont get there to early cause its calling usually start around 10:30 - 11:00.
is your case criminal or federal ? |
FreePizzaDay
06.28.10 | I don't have a case. I may not get one.
Apparently, how it works here in Cuyahoga County, Ohio is that you show up to the courthouse and you sit in a room with about a hundred or so other people and you're given a number.
Then, you wait. They will randomly call numbers of jurors, and if yours gets called, you walk across the street to the court room, where you're asked a few questions and the attorneys decide if you make a good choice as juror.
If you are, you stay on the case, for however long it may take to sort out. If not, you back to the big room and wait for your number to get called again.
It's basically a huge crap shoot. I don't even know how I got selected. There 1.4 million people in the county. |
FreePizzaDay
06.28.10 | Totally. I want to suggest the death penalty for someone. |
FreePizzaDay
06.28.10 | Day one in the books. It fucking blows. We never even got to an exciting part of the trial because the defendant pleaded guilty during the lunch break. |
accompliceofmydeath
06.28.10 | But, did you listen to these albums is the real question. |
FreePizzaDay
06.28.10 | 1 and 2 while waiting, 3 while driving.
Got over a hundred pages done in my book, though. |
foreverendeared
06.28.10 | easy way to get out, when they come to you to see if they're gonna pick you, they'll ask you some questions, like can you be completely unbiased, just say something like, "well, honestly, I think he looks guilty." You'll be sent home. Of coarse this is kind of a moral grey area. |
FreePizzaDay
06.30.10 | Well, the thing is, even if I do that, I get re-entered back into the pool and have to sit in the waiting room to wait to get randomly selected again.
It's a five day process MINIMUM, so even if they dismiss me from a case, I'm not off the hook until Friday. |
foreverendeared
06.30.10 | really? I could swear it's not like that where I'm at. Are the rules different state to state? |
FreePizzaDay
07.01.10 | They might be different county to county, but they're definitely different from state to state. |
