When your travel plans get delayed.

[SportsDiva72]

You've been looking forward to this trip for the longest time.
If it's baseball, basketball,hockey or football season, you're so looking forward to seeing your favorite team play.
You've even brought your new Aaron Rodgers or Shohei Otani uniforms to wear to the games.
But then something happens and you can't go.
It might be you got sick, you're pregnant or in my case a few months ago, duty called.
What duty?
A little something called Jury Duty.
Now I could have gotten out og this with a doctor's note or just by being honest.
But I don't think I have a heavy date with Mookie Betts and Clayton Kershaw in Lis Angeles is a reason to get out of jury duty.
This was different.
For one thing this was Grand Jury Duty that the state of New York wanted me to do .
Grand Jury Duty is a whole different animal.
The only way one can get out of it is if someone is dying, and that someone is YOU.
Jury Duty for me lasted 19 days
It would have been 21 days but there were two holidays in the middle, July 4th and Juneteenth.
Grand Jury is just like regular jury except for one thing.
You don't hear one case and decide if someone is guilty or not, grand jury you can hear three or four cases in one day.
There's no judge but 12 jurors, a foreman, two assistants and two secretaries.
You don't decide if someone is guilty, you decide whether they should go to trial or not.
Many times we saw plaintiffs and defendents who came in with their lawyers and some of New York's finest, (that's NYC policemen and women.)
Like regular jury duty, don't even think about talking about your case.
Yes, I did get paid for this , $750 which I used to pay for that trip that was delayed.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Holy ****, that's a time commitment! Good on you for doing your civic duty ...

I complained about serving for a day (wasn't picked out of the general pool) last month for a regular trial. Just one day and $27 for my time.

I followed this guy's case in our state's online court docket. Guy was charged with domestic assault, attempting to escape from custody and witness intimidation. Ended up not guilty on the first charge and guilty on the last two.

I looked his name up last week, and since the trial, he was charged in one county with domestic assault on a victim that was elderly, incapacitated or vulnerable, false imprisonment and harassment, and in another county with domestic assault, harassment and witness intimidation. All new charges.

He (allegedly) told a LEO that was arresting him that "I can't wait to find out your address."

Freaking scumbag.

 

[HanSenSE]

The last time I had jury duty, they gave me a number to call at 5:30 p.m. every day. If I was needed, they'd let me know. Was never needed.

 

[SportsDiva72]

I had to do that for regular jury duty in California, Massachusetts, Nevada and here in New York (yeah I lived in all of those places.)I sat on juries in Los Angeles and Boston. I don't have to serve again for another 10 or 11 years from what I understand.

 

[SportsDiva72]

Holy shirt, that's a time commitment! Good on you for doing your civic duty ...

I complained about serving for a day (wasn't picked out of the general pool) last month for a regular trial. Just one day and $27 for my time.

I followed this guy's case in our state's online court docket. Guy was charged with domestic assault, attempting to escape from custody and witness intimidation. Ended up not guilty on the first charge and guilty on the last two.

I looked his name up last week, and since the trial, he was charged in one county with domestic assault on a victim that was elderly, incapacitated or vulnerable, false imprisonment and harassment, and in another county with domestic assault, harassment and witness intimidation. All new charges.

He (allegedly) told a LEO that was arresting him that "I can't wait to find out your address."

Freaking scumbag.

I wouldn't call him a scumbag, I can think of a few names in English AND Spanish to call him. Not for nothing, he'll get his because karma's a ***** and she NEVER forgets an address.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

My mother was called for grand jury duty. For her, it was two days a week, for, maybe two months? She said she found interesting.

I’ve had jury duty three times. First time, they screwed up the call-in numbers on the phone recording and nobody showed up on the first day. Second day, we all were there, sat in a room for two hours, read a magazine, and the case was settled.

Second time was for an accused drug dealer. Told them I worked for a newspaper, and after some deliberation between the judge and lawyers, I was dismissed. The case went to trial, but partway through, the guy pled guilty and got a few years in prison.

Third time, I could check the county website beforehand. Did so, and found out there were no trials scheduled that week and that counted as my commitment. I think it’s another six years before I can get called again.

 

[Here me roar]

I get called a lot. I was seated on a jury once upon a time ago, but when the suspect came in and saw the witness, he took the plea deal. I think it'd be really interesting to do grand jury duty.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

****, I wish I had 6 years off. Think I've been called 4 times in the last 2 years, only had to report once. One of those was for grand jury duty, but was never called. Not sure if the pool of registered voters in my county is insanely small, or this is one of the lotteries that I've been unfortunate enough to keep winning ...

 

[Slacker]

Demand a medical hardship. Tell 'em it burns when you pee.

 

[Batman]

Got called twice in the span of a year, and since it was two different courts I couldn't use the two-timer excuse.

First case was a manslaughter charge. I didn't get seated, but going through voir dire did help me catch a mistake in an AP brief about the case when I was proofreading pages a couple weeks later.

Second case I did get seated for an eminent domain case. Spent two days trying to stay awake while learning more about my county's zoning laws and parking lot engineering than I ever thought possible.
They ended up settling on the third day, right after the plaintiff's lawyer abruptly asked for a recess in the middle of questioning a witness. Guess the witness said something damning to their case, but hell if I know what it was.