I received a notice from the County Clerk telling me that I'm on the list of potential jurors. I filled out the lengthy form online, and I'll see what happens. They know my date of birth, so they know I'm almost 80, if that makes any difference.

I was called about thirty years ago, and I was looking forward to being on a jury, but I was dismissed. My son was on a grand jury, and he found that very interesting. He was surprised that the drug dealers were so well educated and so well spoken.

I received a notice from the County Clerk telling me that I'm on the list of potential jurors. I filled out the lengthy form online, and I'll see what happens. They know my date of birth, so they know I'm almost 80, if that makes any difference.

I was called about thirty years ago, and I was looking forward to being on a jury, but I was dismissed. My son was on a grand jury, and he found that very interesting. He was surprised that the drug dealers were so well educated and so well spoken.

I received a notice from the County Clerk telling me that I'm on the list of potential jurors. I filled out the lengthy form online, and I'll see what happens. They know my date of birth, so they know I'm almost 80, if that makes any difference.

I was called about thirty years ago, and I was looking forward to being on a jury, but I was dismissed. My son was on a grand jury, and he found that very interesting. He was surprised that the drug dealers were so well educated and so well spoken.

There is a whole lot of preliminary stuff that took place in the couple weeks before actually being instructed to be at the courthouse for a selection of jurors for a case.

After more preliminary stuff to start the selection process the day I was to show up at the court, the attorneys for prosecution and defense each asked each potential juror questions about different things.
To me, the absolutely most annoying thing about that was the potential juror sitting two rows behind me, who spoke up at the conclusion of questioning of each person with the stories about the three times he'd had jury duty through the years......he'd "been voted jury foreman for every case they heard, and they had convicted in every case."
It was more than tiresome to hear his self-inflated, egotism after the first time, to say nothing of all the repetitions.
Did anyone ask you if you could hear the calliope?

Neither attorney nor the judge instructed him to zip it, and I was sitting there seething.....biting my tongue, clenching my jaws, digging finger nails into my palms, trying to breathe deeply and slowly, willing myself to stay seated - eyes forward.....barely able to contain my irritation with that dude, and not stand up - turn around - and rip him a new one - to clearly inform him it was unlikely anyone except himself had any slight interest in his obese ego.

After the attorneys completed their questioning of each person, the prosecuting attorney gave a short story about how his wife had told him just that morning that he is so gullible. He was chuckling about it, telling it in an almost stand-up comedian fashion, and trying to get someone in the jury pool to respond if they thought he is gullible, or not......no one responded to him.

After a couple more remarks about how he does not believe he is gullible, he pointed directly at me, gave the assigned juror number that had been given to me, and told the judge he would like to have me dismissed from consideration for that case..... "without cause".

The judge sincerely thanked me for my time, thanked me for very forthright, genuine answers to the questions from the attorneys, told me to call that phone# each Sunday evening for the duration of the weeks I was to be available for jury duty, and I was dismissed for that week.

For the remainder of the weeks that I had to call that phone# , I was not again instructed to show up for jury selection.

I received a notice from the County Clerk telling me that I'm on the list of potential jurors. I filled out the lengthy form online, and I'll see what happens. They know my date of birth, so they know I'm almost 80, if that makes any difference.

I was called about thirty years ago, and I was looking forward to being on a jury, but I was dismissed. My son was on a grand jury, and he found that very interesting. He was surprised that the drug dealers were so well educated and so well spoken.