Only been here 16 months and already I get a summons for jury service which of course I can't do because I'm not a US citizen.

I would have liked to have done that if only to see what goes on in a jury behind the scenes. Of course there is very little likelihood of me being impartial and thinking anyone is not guilty.

I LOVE jury duty. I get called every 18 months. It's like 2 free paid days for me to sit around and read.

Depends on the state. Read the summons closely before assuming that.

The first thing the summons says in big bold letters is you have to be a citizen

Be happy you dont have to do the jury duty. I got called 2 yrs ago, and thought I'd just get sent home after 1 day. Little did I know I'd get selected for a long and high profile murder trial!. The first day of the trial there were about 50 gang members sitting in the "family & friends" section of the room, just to make all the jurors a bit more tense. We had to be escorted individually to our cars so none of them would follow us!

This continued on for several days. Finally deliberations! When we couldn't make up our mind on the verdict, after about 10 hrs, they packed us up, stuck us on a county jail bus and shipped us 30 miles outside the city to a remote hotel (sequestered). We had no idea where we were, they took our cell phones so we couldnt call anyone. We had to share a hotel room with a fellow juror, and the phones & TV were removed from the hotel room to make sure we had no outside contact. The officers sat outside our doors to make sure we didnt exit our rooms. It was like it was a freaking movie! The next day back to deliberations for hours and hours.

Horrible experience, hope I'm never asked to serve again!

Jomo's girl - you said it was paid days, I dont know how much you guys got, we got like $17.50 a day, which was probably the cost of gas & parking.

My mom got like, 20.00 a day when she served. Def. not enough to live on

Quite the opposite I would very much have liked to have done it.

Given evidence in lots of trials including three murder ones, and spent quite a bit of my career on protection duties where the jurors got 24 hour protection. The last one before I moved on to other things was to protect a jury in a major drug trial where the villains were considered so dangerous Customs called in the SAS to make the "arrests". The jury were then protected for eight weeks by Met police officers, not quite on a par with the guys from Hereford, often wondered whose warped sense of humor that idea was.

It would have been an very interesting experience to see things from a jurors perspective for once.

When you become a U.S. citizen, you may be able to send in a request to the Comissioner of Jurors to be summoned for jury duty rather than wait to be randomly selected to appear in the future.

Not getting a full 8 hour paycheck is what I hate about it the most. Imagine being stuck on jury duty for weeks on end and you're only getting paid $20/day, that's only $100/week. No way Jose. I hate jury duty.

Diana

We get a lousy $12 a day and free parking from the courts. I meant I get paid at work for the days I have to serve jury duty. Not all places do that.

In my state it's linked to driver's license database. Since i don't have one i'll never be called to serve.