Jury Duty this week!

[charlotte49er]

I have been in Charlotte for 25 years and I bet I have been called for Jury duty 10 times! Isn't there anyone in Charlotte besides me?

I wouldn't mind getting a Workers Comp or Divorce case. I'd talk the jury in awarding million$ on a Workers Comp case. Divorce case, I wonder it I can make it official that the ex-wife has to give him BJ every week for the rest of his life! Either that, or he gets to drop his pants at Trade & Tryon and she has to kiss his *$$ at 5:00PM every Friday!

They don't have jury trials for those though.

[Davidson Deac II]

I did it once. An Elderly couple was suing the local mall because the lady fell coming off the escalator. It was kind of cool until she started talking about how the fall had ruined her sex life. That part was to much information.

She got nothing though.

[necroplasm]

Just go in there reeking of B.O, with a tin foil hat and tooth brush.

They might send you home.

[TheSaint]

Ive been called for duty 3 or 4 times, never served once. Oh id like too, but i gotta freaking work.

When you go, ask if there are any "blacks or damn mexicans" involved, if you are black or mexican, use a different racial reference of course, unless you are Clayton Bigsby. That should get you out.

My dad served as foreman once, he said half of the jury was asking him how to vote.

[ladypanther]

I got a murder trial. It was a terrible experience. The prosecution did not prove 1st degree murder. I thought it was a no brainer "not guilty." Jurors said things like "he looks guilty"..."if the police say he is guilty he must be guilty." Pretty soon...there were 11 votes for guilty. Lots of details but..there were 2 guys in a car...1 of them was the shooter. The other guy was arrested with the gun....he made a deal...got 5 years and said the other guy did it. No supporting evidence and his credibility was very questionable. I believed there was reasonable doubt...several of the other jurors were abusive to me. Ended in a mistrial. ( I was told later by a former judge that everyone in the court system was amazed that the jury did not come back with not guilty because the evidence was not there....and that I was the hero of the courthouse.) After the trial, both sides wanted to talk to me. I told the defense that they would never get a not guilty verdict in this county. A few months later the defendant plead guilty to 2nd degree murder...which fit more with the evidence they had.

I was very disappointed with my experience...and I am sure I never want to be judged by a jury of my peers in this county (Burke).

Good luck with jury duty...hope you get an easy case if you get on a jury.

[necroplasm]

Ive been called for duty 3 or 4 times, never served once. Oh id like too, but i gotta freaking work.

They didn't accept you, or you just didn't show up.. or got excused?

[jasonluckydog]

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[KBRed]

I was just recently called for a first degree murder case. He was guilty as sin. It was fun, a witness came up to testify and two guys walked in and stared at him while he said "I don't remember" to every question. It was just like the movies. Anyway, it lasted about a week, but it seems too easy to get out of it, if you really wanted.

[Jangler]

stop voting

[Razzy]

Welcome to the democratic republic. Yeah jury duty sucks! Hopefully you get a quick case or at least an interesting one. At least we aren't a true democracy, or instead of jury duty you'd be getting a letter in the mail for a year of senatorial duty

Or just make yourself seem like a prejudice asshole in selections and get out of it.

[charlotte49er]

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SWEET! But until I close on my home I have to watch my $$. I'll have to check back after I close. I t would make a great house present to myself.

[cookinwithgas]

I've done it a few times - last time I was the foreman. Typically the people I serve with are fairly honest, smart and able to follow the rules, but there's always one or two morons you need to straighten out that say the stupidest things.

[TheSaint]

They didn't accept you, or you just didn't show up.. or got excused?

I told them i couldnt do it, i had to work. My excuse was a little more detailed of course.

[Guest]

I heard a judge tell someone that was trying to get out of jury duty..."how would you like to be judged by a jury of people who had nothing better to do?" They were honest and said they wouldn't like it, and the judge said "then have a seat".