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| Topic: Have you ever done jury duty? | |
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That's the thing that would worry me too!! It'd piss me off tremendously if people would try whatever just to get out. That's why I think it's a FU system, yet almost every country uses it. Quite amazing. Even if I'd hate being on the jury, I take responsibility VERY seriously and I would never ever want to mistakenly get someone imprisoned or worse. That last case you describe is disgusting. And amazing you got called on that often!! Happy for you you don't have to go anymore now. Also shocking that you can get called on until 70?! Yeah and he was their next-door neighbor, missed his own house by 1.. he got 5 years for that, I am not over it yet ;-( |
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Re the money It is an important job in a courtroom, I have always thought the payment should at least match that of a mid ranking civil servant or if not more say £175 a day , Most places here, like in Florida, they consider it your civil duty, it's an imposed volunteer thing. They basically give you an allowance that covers gas expenses and lunch, any other expenses have to come from your savings. There are some places of employment that have jury duty paid days, and if that's the case, the court doesn't give you anything. Least that's how it was in Florida, each State/County is different. Pfff... so if you haven't got any savings you're just in chit. Jury duty paid days is a great thing! It is interesting to learn about all this stuff. Yes, it's nice when company's do that. Unfortunately the company I worked for didn't, haha. |
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Murder trail, three weeks sequestered, not much pay. Sucked Evidence was graphic.
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Never.
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Many years ago, I use to volunteer for jury duty.
Served on many a jury. I guess, an odd way to pay it forward. I've only been called to jury duty once, in the past 25 years. |
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Murder trail, three weeks sequestered, not much pay. Sucked Evidence was graphic. That must be horrible, both the sequestering as the graphic evidence. I'm not sure I could shake that afterwards. |
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Many years ago, I use to volunteer for jury duty. Served on many a jury. I guess, an odd way to pay it forward. I've only been called to jury duty once, in the past 25 years. Oh, I didn't know you could volunteer. Quite something to do! |
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yes... but they want ask me again
 they called me trouble ... I asked to many ? I forget what it is call we had to see if there was enough evidence to send them to court for prosecuting them ... it had its ups and down ... we did get through a lot of cases in those few days ... I can talk about them now ... that was long ago ... I believe the one that got my heart hurt the most ...& to hear what these people did to this elderly women ... they where druggies ... an lucky the lady lived but they where still monsters...I would say they got jail time ... |
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No.
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Just another reason for bad dreams.
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Many years ago, I use to volunteer for jury duty. Served on many a jury. I guess, an odd way to pay it forward. I've only been called to jury duty once, in the past 25 years. Oh, I didn't know you could volunteer. Quite something to do! It would be unethical for a person to be allowed to volunteer for a specific case. But, an individual can volunteer to be placed in rotation for jury duty. |
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Many years ago, I use to volunteer for jury duty. Served on many a jury. I guess, an odd way to pay it forward. I've only been called to jury duty once, in the past 25 years. Oh, I didn't know you could volunteer. Quite something to do! It would be unethical for a person to be allowed to volunteer for a specific case. But, an individual can volunteer to be placed in rotation for jury duty. That would indeed be wrong. But nice to know more of how it works :) I found out there occasionally is debate here about introducing it. I hope they never do. Argument is that it fits a democracy. I think that's a crap argument. Democracy is knowing what's best, and I think that is to leave it to professionals, not to burden ordinary people, nor get biased opinions in. I'm guesstimating that people who lost someone dear to a total immoral idiot don't agree, but there you go: biased. I don't like biased, hihi. Anywho, as it is we ain't got it :) |
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RockGnome, I think its awesome you had the mind to volunteer.
 Jury DUTY is a duty of a citizen. If you are a US citizen you have access to many national benefits. Why is it some people have the mindset they need to be compensated and forced to do such a little thing in service to their way of life? If you think of all the benefits a citizen has while living in the United States, jury duty is far from balancing the equation. Yet, our "woe is Me" attitude takes center stage. "Woe is Me", I have to take time from my busy schedule to assure our own justice system is fair. "Woe is Me", I have to suffer a short loss of money to assure one of my fellow citizens gets a fair trial. "Woe is Me", until you or someone you care about is facing that same legal system. Frankly, you shouldn't be rewarded or hurt by performing your civic duty. You should be honored and grateful you can be of service to your own national ideals. |
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I've been on 2 juries. One was settled out of court. The pay is very minimal but your job is still there when you are finished regardless of the length of the trial.
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No, maybe for the judicial system years ago.
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I wish I have and one day I hope I get to do it. You cannot lose your job because of jury duty. That is against the law. If your employer wants to compensate you, that is up to the employer's discretion and not a law. Getting paid for doing your civic duty depends on the state in which you live.
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