https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:08:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am/page/2#post-881470 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:20:34 +0000 BSB 881470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LaineysMom: Ah, ok.</p> <p>It was an armed robbery case and the defendant was a self proclaimed heroine addict. That's all we were told before they selected the jurors. I really wanted to know the rest of the details! Wanted to know what evidence they had on him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am/page/2#post-881466 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:14:08 +0000 LaineysMom 881466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurplePeony: I wouldn't want a lawyer on my jury bc I would be worried that their opinion may carry more weight with the other jurors than it should.. But others may appreciate someone who can think critically and presumptively put the law above personal bias.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am/page/2#post-881019 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:54:58 +0000 PurplePeony 881019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsH: I was summoned once and I could literally see the defense attorney look at me, look down at my questionnaire, see that I am a lawyer, and cross my name off his list. It was kinda funny, but I was sort of disappointed I wasn't selected because it was a high-profile criminal case and would have been really interesting. But one of my law school professors spent spring break sitting on a jury one year -- he thought he'd be dismissed immediately and that definitely didn't happen! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am/page/2#post-880934 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:21:05 +0000 LaineysMom 880934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm curious! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am/page/2#post-880933 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:20:53 +0000 LaineysMom 880933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah you can, as long as you're not a juror or an alternate. It's all public record. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880914 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:08:29 +0000 BSB 880914@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LaineysMom: No. I didn't. I was in the court room but didn't make it to the juror box. I was close. I was about 6 people away from being called. Am I allowed to talk about the case? I think I am because I know very little about the actual case... and I'm not part a juror. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880907 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:04:53 +0000 LaineysMom 880907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: did you get called up to the jury box? I didn't even get called up my first time.. Boo! What was the case about?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880886 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:43:06 +0000 BSB 880886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LaineysMom: Well, I wasn't selected. I kinda wanted to be selected. I wanted to hear more of the case.</p> <p>It was definitely interesting being involved in how they pick jurors.</p> <p>Guess I'll have to wait til next time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880843 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:22:41 +0000 Dandelion 880843@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never been summoned, but I wouldn't mind it! My brother was summoned, but not selected when he was in the summer after he graduated high school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880838 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:18:21 +0000 LaineysMom 880838@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: gotcha! I would like to serve one day.. I think I could be picked, but who knows.. I may be too opinionated. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880611 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:22:34 +0000 sslm 880611@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never been summoned! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880575 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:10:14 +0000 2PeasinaPod 880575@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had to report once, but the case I was assigned to ended up settling out of court, so was free to leave around 11am! Woot! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880571 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:08:25 +0000 Penny Lane 880571@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got summoned once, but got out of it because i was still BFing :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880567 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:07:24 +0000 Mrsbells 880567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have never been selected </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880541 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:55:15 +0000 MrsClownfish 880541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsH I am an appellate attorney so I definitely don't think I will ever get picked but who knows. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880340 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:49:34 +0000 BelugaBean 880340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: I think I knew one person who was on a case for a week or two and they said it was interesting but they don't really want to do it again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880325 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:45:58 +0000 BSB 880325@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BelugaBean: oh, yeah. I got selected for a case and they said it could go for two weeks. I wouldn't do if I had children under 6 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880313 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:41:46 +0000 BelugaBean 880313@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: I think it said that if you're the primary caretaker of a child younger than 7 than you can be excused from having to report. LO was about three months the first time and six the second. I would have loved to go before she was born but I was kind of glad to get out of having to arrange everything for her care. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880289 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:35:06 +0000 BSB 880289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BelugaBean: oh, my county offers child care. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880283 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:33:36 +0000 BSB 880283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LaineysMom: no, the first one I didn't even have to show up because I called the hotline and they said they didn't need any jurors. I think that's why I didn't feel bad about going today. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880274 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:31:18 +0000 BelugaBean 880274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got picked twice this year (one was state and one was county I believe). I didn't go though because I'm LO's primary caretaker. It would have been interesting before I had LO but I couldn't go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880270 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:30:22 +0000 LaineysMom 880270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: did you go in the first time? I know everyone who got called into the courtroom got "released" for one year even if they didn't serve on the jury. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880245 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:25:22 +0000 MamaBehr 880245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got picked to sit on a jury once, it was a burglary case. It was extremely interesting, but I was just an alternate so I didn't decide anything. I do remember we got a free sandwich out of it! </p> <p>We moved to TX about two years ago, and I was summoned in February but I got out of it since I'm a SAHM :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880232 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:22:27 +0000 BSB 880232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LaineysMom: oh, yeah, that's what I thought but since it was for two different courts I thought I had to do both. If I would have been selected for the local court, I would have asked to be excused for the county. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880220 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:18:46 +0000 spaniellove 880220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was selected for a weeklong child molestation trial...I suppose if I really didn't want to do it I could have just raised my hand with everyone else and said I didn't want to do it. </p> <p>@MrsH: That's what the attorney sitting next to me said, but we ended up with one on the jury that I was picked for! He was useful as a foreman. </p> <p>@mrs. bird: The experience affected me for a long time, too. I still think about it sometimes even though it was a few years ago. The victims are now men older than me, but the trial demonstrated so many social issues and I got so frustrated that people are still not all on the same page about these things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880171 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:05:56 +0000 LaineysMom 880171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: I thought you could only be called in once a year.. But I could be making that up.. I know one time LA county called me in 3 months after I had shown up in Santa Clara, so I notified them that I had already been called in and they told me I was released for a year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-880161 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:03:45 +0000 LaineysMom 880161@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsH: the one time I was called in for JD they picked a lawyer with a corporate background. I was a little surprised. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-879514 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:18:54 +0000 purrpletulips 879514@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was summoned once but was released because I was away at college at the time. My dad has served on several civil juries and mom served on one, had a really bad experience and they have taken her name off the list because of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-879481 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:09:24 +0000 MrsH 879481@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As an Attorney I highly doubt I would ever get picked to sit on a jury. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reporting-to-jury-duty-tomorrow-at-8am#post-879474 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:07:37 +0000 cascademom 879474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm probably going to do jury duty at the end of the summer since I had to delay it with nursing. It'll be my first time too. </p>