Teacher arrested after failing to appear for jury duty

[Big Dog]

I get jury duty summonses once in awhile. I just throw them in the glove box with all of those unpaid speeding tickets, child support payment demands, and garnishment notices.

What could go wrong?

[NHSparky]

I get jury duty summonses once in awhile. I just throw them in the glove box with all of those unpaid speeding tickets, child support payment demands, and garnishment notices.

What could go wrong?

Well, the smell from the dead hooker in the trunk might tip off the cops to do a search.

Seriously, it's interesting that I got called for jury duty 3 years in a row when I lived in CA, and since moving to NH?  Nada.  Zip.  Nothing.

Might have to do with the crime rate, too.

[JohnnyReb]

Well, the smell from the dead hooker in the trunk might tip off the cops to do a search.

Seriously, it's interesting that I got called for jury duty 3 years in a row when I lived in CA, and since moving to NH?  Nada.  Zip.  Nothing.

Might have to do with the crime rate, too.

I've had jury duty a dozen or more times in my life time. I got called every year for 6 years in a row.....raised hell with the clerk of court....skipped a year and was called the next. I got put on every jury that was selected during those weeks and the judges always told me to take the foreman of the jury seat. Am I lucky or what? The last case I was on was over 10 years ago and it lasted 2 weeks. I haven't been called since then.

They used to select jurors from the voter registration roles. Now they select jurors from drivers license registrations. The last jury I was on came from the drivers license bunch. Boy had the quality of jurors gone down.

[Big Dog]

Well, the smell from the dead hooker in the trunk might tip off the cops to do a search.

Seriously, it's interesting that I got called for jury duty 3 years in a row when I lived in CA, and since moving to NH?  Nada.  Zip.  Nothing.

Might have to do with the crime rate, too.

I haven't been summoned to jury duty since I got my concealed carry license in 2006. Unknown if there is any correlation between the two.

[JohnnyReb]

I haven't been summoned to jury duty since I got my concealed carry license in 2006. Unknown if there is any correlation between the two.

Hadn't thought of that.....probably true.....commonsense is not desired in a court room.

[Eupher]

I haven't been summoned to jury duty since I got my concealed carry license in 2006. Unknown if there is any correlation between the two.

I did, and while I know better than to carry in a courtroom, I was a little surprised that I had to put my cell phone back in the car. I was not allowed to have it on my person, even turned off.

[Big Dog]

Hadn't thought of that.....probably true.....commonsense is not desired in a court room.

I had a Missouri CHL from 2003-2006, but I was called to jury duty in Missouri two or three times. Prior to that, I was commissioned as a law enforcement officer in MO, and was called twice for jury duty.

[Zathras]

Here, where I live, it would be real easy to avoid jury duty if one wanted to. The notice for jury duty in my county is mailed in a very distinct style of mailer. It's would be very easy to just throw it away and, if they come after you, you can say that you never received it in the mail. There's no way for them to prove you wrong because you don't have to sign for it or  use any other method to prove otherwise.

[JohnnyReb]

Here, where I live, it would be real easy to avoid jury duty if one wanted to. The notice for jury duty in my county is mailed in a very distinct style of mailer. It's would be very easy to just throw it away and, if they come after you, you can say that you never received it in the mail. There's no way for them to prove you wrong because you don't have to sign for it or  use any other method to prove otherwise.

Won't work here....here they also publish your name in the local paper and say well f you didn't get it in the mail you should have looked in the paper.....we don't whether you take the paper or not.....it was in there.

[dixierose]

They used to select jurors from the voter registration roles. Now they select jurors from drivers license registrations. The last jury I was on came from the drivers license bunch. Boy had the quality of jurors gone down.

That would explain why my boyfriend's niece got called to jury duty. She isn't registered to vote; yet has been called twice. I was wondering how that could be since I thought names were taken off of voter registration rolls.

[NHSparky]

I've had jury duty a dozen or more times in my life time. I got called every year for 6 years in a row.....raised hell with the clerk of court....skipped a year and was called the next. I got put on every jury that was selected during those weeks and the judges always told me to take the foreman of the jury seat. Am I lucky or what? The last case I was on was over 10 years ago and it lasted 2 weeks. I haven't been called since then.

They used to select jurors from the voter registration roles. Now they select jurors from drivers license registrations. The last jury I was on came from the drivers license bunch. Boy had the quality of jurors gone down.

Ah, Billy Jeff's contribution to the judicial system of the United States, aka "Motor Voter," meaning he and the Dems knew full well how many illegals, non-citizens, etc., were getting licenses, so putting them on the jury pool would be just an extra-added bonus!

Yeah, I don't know how many people I ran into in OC who got out of jury duty because they weren't citizens OR here legally, but shouldn't have had driver's licenses. 

[rich_t]

Just tell the judge that you are a firm advocate of jury nullification.

You won't be serving on any jury after that.