Never, but I've only been registered to vote about 10 years. I didn't register at 18 because I didn't want jury duty and didn't really have much interest in politics, but then there were some important issues to vote on and I had to sign up.
Post by PinkSquirrel on Aug 12, 2014 18:26:12 GMT -5
Every 3 years since a few months after I turned 18, so 4 times i think. The first three I was on standby and didn't have to show up and the last time I got on a 3 day trial. It was kind of awesome
Our office manager got called (three week rape and murder trial for her, poor thing) and I was all "I'm 32 and never been called, knock on wood" when I got my first summons from the county court. I ended up getting called for a drug case where her defense was she stopped at the drug apartment complex to take a poop in the bushes because she had diarrhea and she had no idea how the crack pipe got there or who the other people were.
Less than a couple months later I got called for district court for our city, where I was excused for the first few times because of the prior service with the county court. After my fourth (or so) deferral they wouldn't defer any more so I ended up on another drug trial. A couple months after that I got the call again, even though my name was supposed to have been pulled because of the earlier service. Nope, new jury pools every two years so I got pulled for one of the first ones in the new pool.
I got my first one shortly after we moved here but since our town straddles two counties and it was the wrong county, I was excused. When I got one for the county in which we live, I ended up getting excused because I wasn't needed. Oh, gee, darn.
Thanks. I don't see anything about Canada or specifically Quebec. I looked on the Quebec jury duty website and it does mention family obligations? I tried calling and it was impossible to get a line. I'll try again tomorrow.
3 times. Currwntly serving on a six week trial. Ugh
DANG! Are you employed? How does your employer feel about this?
When I was serving a few weeks ago, they were trying to put together a jury for a 3-4 month trial and I was just perplexed how anyone can be out of work that long without repercussions. All retirement-aged jury?
I am employed. I'm a government employee though, so I get full pay. My boss isn't thrilled - I'm a manager, so he's having to manage my staff while I'm out. I'm in on Fridays and I'm checking my email regularly. There were a ton of people who filed for hardships because of the length of the trial (30 of the 60 person pool). And then some of them were flat out crazy. I was not crazy enough to be dismissed. go figure. the jury is like half and half retired people and public employees.
4 times, actually served on a jury once about 1.5yrs ago. I hated it & will be pissed if I get called again soon. I'm 38. I've only lived in Denver 8yrs & been called 3 times already!
I've been called once, was excused since DH was OOT, my back up kid watcher was OOT, and DD had to be picked up from DC by 4:30 and I wouldn't get out of court before 5 during the ~1 week trial. I was actually kind of disappointed, and now I won't get called back for at least another few years.