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Anyone here done it?
I was summonsed to attend Jury Duty this week.
It's a bit of a rip. $36 a day. I'd make more in an hour at work than that. and doing the same amount of work (ie. sitting on my arse reading a paper/magazine). I want a pair of those Homer Simpson glasses that look like your awake, when your asleep.
Boom King
10-28-2008, 10:17 AM
How come its always the people who don't want to do jury duty that get picked? I really want to do it and i've not been picked ever.
Maybe I should move to a small town with a high crime rate! That would surely increase my chances.
Absolution
10-28-2008, 10:59 AM
What's the system for being chosen anyway? Get a phone book and pick our random names?
Colezy
10-28-2008, 10:59 AM
I haven't done it before... I think it's done through the electoral roll?
One of my supervisors at work has done it before. He'd be the funniest person to do it with..he'd just confuse everyone with his opinions :p
Boom King
10-28-2008, 11:06 AM
Yeah, I think they just pick random names from the electoral roll.
But getting called up to go there doesn't mean that you'll definitely get picked for a jury.
Absolution
10-28-2008, 11:07 AM
Oh, that'd be me if I was chosen! lol
Annoy the buggery out of everyone while we are locked in that room deciding on a verdict, mwuahaha! :D
You get catered for during these things, no? Like with food and stuff? :p
Shadow
10-28-2008, 11:34 AM
If anyone's played any of the Phoenix Wright games, I'd love for court to be like that. I wouldn't mind doing jury duty, I guess - though I've got years before they'll request me, i'm sure.
The Dying Start
10-28-2008, 04:17 PM
I haven't been picked, but i know someone who's been up 3 times.
I have read 12 Angry Men though.
it wa craptacular.
Mostly sitting around waiting. and watching daytime TV (Suzie then Days Of Our Lives)
some girl went to change teh channel so we could watch Ready steady Cook, but a heap of people whinged about it.
Burner
10-28-2008, 05:09 PM
Join the army and you don't have to do it.
Boom King
10-28-2008, 05:11 PM
so, are you actually on a jury yet, or are you just waiting around to be picked for one?
Sarah
10-28-2008, 06:14 PM
Join the army and you don't have to do it.
lol, i think i'd rather be on a jury!
except if i'm on the jury i expect to be watching ready steady cook not some other crappy daytime show!
Deadcat Kaye
10-28-2008, 06:17 PM
DAYS OF OUR LIVES FTW!!
There is such an easy way to get out of jury duty...just say you know about the case.
They have to be sure that no one in the jury will have any biased opinion...
Say you know about it...You get off (and I think the rest fo the jury gets dismissed and they find another bunch of people)
Get your boss to write a letter saying you can't. My dad has been summoned heaps but the boss just writes him a note to get him out of it.
Also, it's something I really wouldn't risk doing. Imagine being part of one of those cases that last for months, can you imagine how much that would suck?
Caity
10-28-2008, 06:44 PM
I got summonsed a month after I turned 18, but got out of it - I'd just started my three month probation at work.
worry_rock
10-28-2008, 07:35 PM
I haven't been picked, but i know someone who's been up 3 times.
I have read 12 Angry Men though.
They made a movie out of that, it's good. :)
mattheal
10-28-2008, 07:35 PM
the best way to get out of it, is to say you either are a cop, are closely related to a cop, or have anything to do with a cop, they wont touch you
worry_rock
10-28-2008, 07:40 PM
There are many people who can be exempt, or who are not allowed at all to sit on a jury.
private_eye
10-28-2008, 08:16 PM
my legal studies teacher in year 12 got out of it cos she was a legal studies teacher haha
so, are you actually on a jury yet, or are you just waiting around to be picked for one?
Just waiting.
I'm taking my own magazine with me tomorrow. The "General Interest" magazines they supplied sucked. Womens Day and New Ideas aren't General interest for men.
I thought you could choose whether you were on the 'list' to be picked. My mother reckons she had her name taken off whatever it is that they draw you from. I don't know how or why though.
I'd like to do it though, I thi it would be hella boring, but interesting to know what someone did to be there in the first place :p unless I became a cop or something then I wouldn't do it haha.
Nah you have no choice.
They send you out some questionairre, you fill that in, send it back, then a little while later you'll be summonsed.
When in the jury pool (its not as good as it sounds) you sit around until a court sessions starts.
Then in the court room, someone pulls a bunch of names out of the box. If your name isn't called out, you leave and go back to the room and wait for another court hearing to start.
And because my court is a country court, the don't do too many sittings in one day. And there's no lengthy trials.
My aunty was on the Jury for that Lady In the Boot trial. Free hotel room, food, drink etc. No contact with family, other than written notes passed onto the judges assistant, who would analyze it then pass it on to your family.
Boom King
10-29-2008, 10:12 AM
stupid people getting out of jury duty whilst I sit here dury-duty free. PICK ME RANDOMISER, PICK ME. I WANT TO DO MY CIVIC DUTY.
Big J.G
10-29-2008, 11:08 AM
My mum was selected twice, but didn't go. I don't know why though, I would love to go in and pretend to be her.
The Dying Start
10-29-2008, 04:27 PM
They summons you, but you can get out of it by pretending you're a bigot or something. Just scrawl "i better not get some gaybo bullshit" on your forms, or "all black people are guilty" or something.
Boom King
10-29-2008, 04:54 PM
the prosecution tries to weed out women and minority groups because they think they these people are more likely to feel sympathy for the accused.
Today was my last day.
We all got ushered into the court room and they started the selection process.
I wasn't picked. So then I got to leave.
Though when the Judge came out, all I could think of was Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law. and the 2 judges (Mentok the Mindtaker, and Judge Mightor)
Judge Hiram Mightor
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/mightor4.jpg
Mentok The Mind Taker
http://www.quizilla.com/user_images/D/deadlierchair/1061570018_uizMentok2.JPG
Deadcat Kaye
10-30-2008, 09:13 AM
hahaha I love Harvey Birdman! :D
I raise your Harvey Birdman with my Radio Birdman.
Shadow
10-30-2008, 08:54 PM
I raise your Harvey Birdman with my Radio Birdman.
I see your Radio Birdman and raise you to the Birdman Rally.
Burner
10-30-2008, 10:39 PM
lol, i think i'd rather be on a jury!
except if i'm on the jury i expect to be watching ready steady cook not some other crappy daytime show!
Yeah its prolly the better choice there Sarah. Army is shithouse.
Well, it can be an enjoyable experience but you gotta be pretty keen about it.
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