Reply With QuoteIt's gona be a long day.......
What better to do then surf the Hot Boat Forum in the Jury waiting room of the Menifee Justice center on their wireless internet!!!
It's gona be a long day.......
If you ever get arrested for something, don't ever request a jury trial. Remember...Jury duty is for those people who are not smart enough to know how to get out of it!!! j/k
No offense, but only suckers and chumps serve on jury duty.
not true anymore.. getting out of jury duty isn't as easy as it once was and the courts are going to make it tougher.
I get to go tomorrow.... :hammer2:
Hey good idea....I got called for October, so maybe I'll do the same....have a good day...
No offense, but only suckers and chumps serve on jury duty.
SWB - you usually post rather thoughtful statements so I must believe that this is satire.
Avoiding jury duty is one problem we have with the decisions coming out of our courts lately. It is because those that have nothing better to do go and decide cases rather than the more thoughtful and mainstreamed idea holding people.
Cudos to all who show up and vote their conscience even though it may be a burden financially and to their family.
This is for San Bernardino County.. but many are already doing this and more including arrest warrents for those who ignore the summons.
Court crackdown
Jury duty a primary civic duty
San Bernardino courts no longer letting juror no-shows off the hook. Scofflaws who ignore their jury summons may have to show up in court anyway and tell it to the judge, or else face fines of up to $1,500. It's kind of ironic, but those who don't or won't show up for jury duty in San Bernardino County Superior Court are being warned they'll have to haul themselves in anyway for a hearing their own where they can explain their incivility to a judge.
The San Bernardino County courts are cracking down, under legislation approved last year that gives courts the authority to fine noncompliant jurors.
It's accountability that's long overdue.
Under the new strategy, people are given two chances to respond to a summons. Or else.
And it's working. In the first six months, the number of people who shun their jury notice has been cut in half.
Last year, 22 percent of prospective jurors failed to show up. Those 200,000 lawbreakers were enough to whip court officials into action, demanding to know why. Since January, the number of people who shrug their shoulders at jury duty has dropped to 10 percent.
Judge Brian McCarville, who handles noncompliant jurors in San Bernardino, says most are apologetic, and some even have good excuses, such as moving away.
But there are still far too many who fail to grasp the importance of serving on a jury.
Defendants and civil litigants deserve to have a trial by a jury of their peers. State law requires, with few exceptions, that any U.S. citizen, at least 18, living in California report for jury duty when summoned.
And with San Bernardino County's court docket one of the busiest in the state, the high rate of juror no-shows can delay a trial unnecessarily.
Court administrators say that once people are ordered to appear, most make haste to call in and schedule their jury service. Yet the court's fines, which thus far have averaged $30 to cover the cost of the summons, really aren't enough to reflect flagrant disobedience to civic duty.
For all of those who do drop everything to show up when the court calls, who put up with the inconvenience and the paltry $15 a day to respectfully comply with their democratic duty and serve on a jury, it is a slap in the face when those who do not abide by the rules are fined a mere $30.
Especially when it costs far more than that to keep each courtroom up and running.
Along with enforcing jury duty, the courts might fare better in encouraging people to obey their jury summons in the first place by showing a little more consideration for jurors' time and sacrifice.
A little streamlining is in order to make the courts function as efficiently as possible, leading to a full contingent of willing jurors.
So, how do you get out of it now? I don't think telling them that my truck won't fit in their parking structure is a good exuse. :idea:
If you ever get arrested for something, don't ever request a jury trial. Remember...Jury duty is for those people who are not smart enough to know how to get out of it!!! j/k
Yeah, it's pretty bad when a jury of your "peers" is made up of government workers with nothing better to do and people not smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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