Jury duty

[Mo-Nercy]

I've just been through hell and back trying to get my dad excused from jury duty. I told them that he can't speak English and for some reason, they just decided not to believe me and follow through and send the summons. It's all sorted though, a polite email and an angry phone call was all it took.

I personally haven't been called up for jury duty, but has anyone else? What was your experience of it? I've heard some great stories from people about their time doing it and other stories from people who've said it was just a lot of sitting around and playing iPhone.

Enlighten me!

[Quindiana Jones]

My mum did it. The case was about this father who installed cameras in his bathroom and watched his wife and daughter do stuff.

[missaira]

ew

[Chris]

I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I don't think there's such a thing as jury duty here in Denmark. No one I know have ever had to do jury duty. It seems awfully undemocratic to force people to do anything. O:

[Breine]

I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I don't think there's such a thing as jury duty here in Denmark. No one I know have ever had to do jury duty. It seems awfully undemocratic to force people to do anything. O:

There's no jury duty in Denmark. If there is, I've never heard about it before.

[Imperfectionist]

My mum had to do it. She didn't even tell me a lot of what happened in the case cos it was really horrible

She works for the police now though so I don't think she can get summoned to do it anymore.

[Quindiana Jones]

There are no exemptions for jury duty regarding your career. She can still get the summon.

[Aurey]

My mom was also summoned (wow-- thread title should just be "jury moms") in the late nineties. She managed to get out of it because she was taking care of five young kids and also working full time, so she really did not have the time for it.

Don't really know anyone besides that who has done it. I hope I never get summoned, but if I do it's no biggie.

[Unbreakable Will]

They tried to summon me to my old town for jury duty but I got out of it on account of me no longer living there, and they had the summoning circle all wrong. Silly conjurors.

[Tavrobel]

other stories from people who've said it was just a lot of sitting around and playing iPhone.

It is.

I haven't had to sit on the jury, but I was summoned. A quick response to "is there any other reason why you will not be able to sit on the panel" is usually enough to get you out of a case. In mine, I said "well, I've got finals this week, so I can't sit all seven days of this trial."

Now I don't have to serve again for three years.

[Clo]

I haven't been summoned yet, but I have this feeling it's going to happen at this most inconvenient time, like when I'm student teaching or something of the sort.

[Imperfectionist]

There are no exemptions for jury duty regarding your career. She can still get the summon.

Aah I didn't know that

[Rodarian]

My mum did it. The case was about this father who installed cameras in his bathroom and watched his wife and daughter do stuff.

ew

Ditto


Haven't been summoned yet.. Honestly I wouldn't mind doing it....Gives me a broader experience of things...

Guilty or Not Guilty...That is the question!

[Clo]

If I ever did get jury duty, I would spend the entire time wishing that the defense attorney was Pheonix Wright and that the judge was a bald doofus with a beard.

[Citizen Bleys]

they had the summoning circle all wrong. Silly conjurors.

Inorite? It's like they don't even know you can complete the Ritual of Ash'Kente with only a bit of baling twine and 4 cc of mouse blood.