https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:15:37 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409660 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:06:23 +0000 banana 409660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, 2 years ago! It was an attempted murder case. It was really interesting! I'd love to serve again but I haven't received a jury summons since that one time 2 years ago. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409524 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:05:33 +0000 spaniellove 409524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: @lawbee11: Yeah, the lawyer on mine did real estate law...I only figured that out after he gave me his card and a long time later we ended up doing the closing for our house at his firm. But it was because of his explanations of the law that I decided to only say the guy was guilty on some of the counts even though I thought he molested all of the boys. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409500 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:50:16 +0000 lawbee11 409500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@spaniellove: @Foodnerd81: It definitely happens. Attorneys only get a limited number of "strikes," so sometimes a lawyer is the better option to have on the jury. I hope I get picked--I would love to serve! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409463 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:29:34 +0000 Foodnerd81 409463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: @spaniellove: Yup, there was a lawyer on my jury too. He was the foreman. I don't believe he did criminal law, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409450 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:23:45 +0000 spaniellove 409450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: You'd be surprised! There was a lawyer on the jury with me. He probably kept things from falling apart when everyone was really angry at each other. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409403 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:00:22 +0000 MamaMoose 409403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never even been called to serve.</p> <p>@lawbee11: I get why attorneys wouldn't be chosen but it seems like such a waste since you would be so well qualified! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409376 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:40:39 +0000 oliviaoblivia 409376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been called for jury duty about eight times. I was only able to serve once though and one of the sides didn't want me on the jury so I got dismissed. I'd really like to serve one day. I think it's important.</p> <p>@twodoghouse: that poor woman! It must have been hard not being able to do anything about her situation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409372 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:37:08 +0000 lawbee11 409372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have been called a few times, but was always able to get out of it because I was a full-time student. Now that I am an attorney, I will almost certainly never get chosen if I do get called again. </p> <p>I interned for a judge my first year of law school, and watching the jury be chosen was always my favorite part of the trial--it's so interesting! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409366 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:35:32 +0000 singingbee 409366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but they didn't choose me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409268 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:46:40 +0000 twodoghouse 409268@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did a couple weeks ago and was chosen to sit on a case. It was a domestic battery case and was really awful. The state was the one prosecuting the case and the (alleged) victim had been subpoenaed to be there and testify. When it was her time to testify, she said the defendant had not touched her, never had, she'd never been afraid of him, it was not her handwriting on the form that had been filled out, etc. Basically the whole case fell apart because apparently the state had no other evidence than what the woman had previously said. We found him non-guilty, although we (the jury) all felt that he probably had hurt her. I guess this happening isn't that uncommon with domestic battery cases, but it was just really really sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409265 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:45:18 +0000 DpeachLu 409265@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ive gotten notices but have never had to go in. There is a # you call the day before and they let you know if you will be needed to go in. I dont think I would ever get selected anyways since I work in the criminal defense field. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409256 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:37:27 +0000 Alivoo01 409256@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been called to sit in on the selection, but haven't been chosen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409204 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:04:13 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 409204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never been called to do it. Neither has my husband. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409151 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:37:58 +0000 chopsuey 409151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: yep worked for me. They made me reschedule, but I kept using school as an excuse </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409146 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:36:53 +0000 dagret 409146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've gotten letters twice to call in for federal jury duty but I've never had to show up for selection. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409144 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:35:33 +0000 autumnlove 409144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have never served...always dismissed on the day of! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409141 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:34:31 +0000 spaniellove 409141@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I served on a jury a few years ago. It was really tough - a child molestation case for a group of boys who were now older than me. It was so frustrating to hear the things other jurors actually believed: that they were just interested in sex, someone in such a public position would never do that, they're just looking for money, my child would tell me if someone touched them so this can't be true, etc. The younger more educated jurors had clearly been exposed to more information about child abuse, while the less educated/less progressive-minded jurors hadn't. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409132 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:29:59 +0000 mrs. wagon 409132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been called 3 times and been picked for a jury all 3 times. The most recent time I was even the foreman (foreperson?). Every single time I knew I was going to be picked because I was the only person in the jury pool that appeared to be under 40 and I was the only minority. 2 drunk driving cases and the last one was... I don't even remember. Some kind of domestic dispute. All three cases were total BS... it was pretty evident that the defendant was guilty but the lawyers couldn't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt so all three were proven not guilty. All three cases were being tried at least a year or two after the incident happened so the police officers and etc. could barely remember the details of the incident... they could only go on their police reports and lawyers can just tear those apart easily. (i.e. exactly what time was the breathalyzer taken vs. what time the defendant claimed he had one beer, because the amount of alcohol in someone's breath peaks at different times according to their body weight, etc....)</p> <p>Some people think my frequency of serving on a jury is exciting, but to me it was just a lot of time sitting in a chair listening to people whine. One lawyer seriously thought he was Johnny Cochran-- even dressed like him-- and very passionately pleaded the case of his client (a young man arrested for a DUI). I guess it worked since we had to declare him not guilty! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409119 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:24:52 +0000 tororojo 409119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I served on a jury for 2 days--robbery case. We sent the guy to the pen for 6 yrs because he wouldn't quit stealing things! I thought it was a very interesting experience, and I got to miss work as a bonus. </p> <p>I felt like the lawyers really wanted me on the jury--when they were asking things before eliminating people they asked me several direct questions and kept staring at me...I was 25 or so, maybe they really wanted a young person? Or maybe I was just unlucky--out of hundreds of jurors that day, my juror number was one of the first 10! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409117 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:22:22 +0000 mamabolt 409117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got called once right after I had graduated college. I went but got dismissed the first day. Never been called in the eight years since. My sister gets called at least once a year though, but she lives in a major city. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409111 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:20:06 +0000 Foodnerd81 409111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: They accepted that? When I got called in college, in Mass, it didn't matter if you were a student, they just said to reschedule it for a day you didn't have class. My friend had to cry to the judge to get out of a trial that would go into finals. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409106 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:17:59 +0000 mrs. bird 409106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have. I was on an attempted murder (among other charges) trial. It was awful. I cried when it was over because I felt like I just took any chance at a future away from a kid. He was 17. Many of my fellow jurors were racist a**holes. It was a very disturbing experience for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409093 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:13:35 +0000 chopsuey 409093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never. Always had school as an excuse :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409092 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:13:33 +0000 Minnie_Girl 409092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was called and served this summer. Only sat in on one case all week. PITA. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409089 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:12:45 +0000 Smurfette 409089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have gotten called numerous times, but actually only had to go down there once. Then I was dismissed by 10 or 11, so never had to sit on one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409086 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:11:55 +0000 Foodnerd81 409086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was on a jury when I lived in NYC. It lasted almost a week, and I hated my job at the time and got full pay for the days, so it was awesome! It was like living in a really, really boring episode of Law and Order.<br /> I've been called for it a lot of times-- once in college, sat in the jury room for a few hours and they sent us all home, not trials; once when I moved back to my parents' house after college, but I moved right after I was called so didn't have to do it; the time I was on a jury in NYC; and I got called after I moved up here to Boston, sat in a room and read all day and got sent home. So I've been called 4 times in about 10 years, but only went in 2 times. Like you I think it's because I've moved so much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409079 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:09:58 +0000 matador84 409079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got called for jury duty next Tuesday! I've never been called before. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-served-jury-duty-1#post-409076 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:08:22 +0000 Mrs. Bee 409076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got called last year but was exempt since I served in another district a couple years ago. I just got another notice because they've lowered the frequency with which you have to serve now. I get called for jury duty so often because I've moved so many times. But I've never been picked for a jury! I would love to actually serve, but it sucks wasting a whole day and not be picked.</p> <p>Have you ever served? </p>