I’m on call for jury duty for federal court… for an entire month. Crazy long time IMO to have to be at the court’s beck and call each week. I had to go in on the first day for 4.5 hours but since then I’ve been calling in each week and haven’t had to return. I’m safe again this week 😮‍💨

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Is it just a one time mandatory thing? And is there a penalty when you don't show up?

Must be a pain being randomly selected

Yup. You get randomly selected and must serve. You can postpone a few times but eventually your number gets called. There are local and state courts too but this is federal court, it’s called district court and it’s the last court that gets decided by jury before the circuit court and supreme courts which are decided by judges

I hope so too. Don’t they know I have an important live stream podcast that I simply can’t miss?

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I appreciate you and the example you are setting.

Good point, Ignore my complaining about it then :)

No good deed goes unpunished 

Thank you for doing your civic duty and registering to vote. By extension, reporting for jury duty. A speedy trial by a jury of one’s peers requires said peers to show up. 

Thank you for showing up!

Ez to get out of though just say you’re biased against something about the aggressor

You can’t dodge it? I’ve dodged a few

one upside of being a lawyer. no one ever wants me on their jury 🤣

what kinda case you on?

You should never be anywhere near jury duty. 

Study Larry David

This almost happened to me like 10 years ago, but I was able to prove that taking that time off, over my IRL job was a financial hardship. 

p.s. I’ve been summoned to jury duty three times and am not even 40, don’t know many people with a count that high.

Yikes yeah seriously hard esp as a founder / human with a life

why did I read the first line as “call of duty” , I think I need to touch grass