...I've been summoned.

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Jered
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...I've been summoned.

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Like someone reading from an old dusty tome in order to conjure a demon from ancient ages, I've been summoned.

...yeah, I got tagged for jury duty.

:lol:
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One of my interns was summoned. I told him to tell the lawyers as fast as possible that he's an electrical engineer.

I suspect he won't make it past the Voir Dire.
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Tell them you believe in Jury Nullification.
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Brazenly display the latest Ann Coulter book as you face the attorneys.
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Go gladly. It's your chance to inject a bit of good sense into what otherwise is often a clusterf--k of PC or similar foolishness. Besides, most of the time you're notified that the accused plead out rather than face a jury, and the rest of the day is yours to either return to work or go home. yes it is often a PITA but would you rather do it or see "Dindu Nuffin" making citizenship-type decisions in your stead?
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Been "summoned" 5-6 times and never had to actually go down to the court house. Just had to check the answering machine when I got home every evening for reporting instructions until the time period ran out or (usually) they say to don't bother calling any longer.

The only time I actually go out of it was when Bexar County Texas sent me a notice, through my intermediate duty station in Korea, to my then current station in Omaha, and it arrived the day before I was to report. I called them up and they allowed as to how that was a valid reason and excused me.

I was an alternate on a Court Martial board once, does that count? ;)

Had an Airman in my office in Kelly AFB that was summoned and was absolutely terrified that she would get a murder case to have to decide on.

We told her to take a quarter in and flip a coin. Heads: "He must be guilty or those fine young men of the Police would never have arrested him". Tails: " I know the Pigs grab people off the street and railroad them just to make their stats look good". Either way she wouldn't have to worry about serving on a murder case!
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I've only been summoned once. I talked them into letting me serve. I figure if I'm ever in front of a jury, I don't want it made up of people who were too dumb to get out of it.

Of course, that didn't work out too well for that defendant, so...
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Juror summoning spell becomes corrupted by the demon summoning spell, and a fed appears....
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Pulled jury duty once, going on 25 years ago, in a county I don't live in now. Civil trial, in which plaintiff's counsel selected "pound the table" as a strategy.
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Netpackrat wrote:Juror summoning spell becomes corrupted by the demon summoning spell, and a fed appears....
:lol:
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