Jury Duty

[Killer_Clown_2009 0]

You need to be a USC to serve on a jury correct?

[Nancy2015 2]

You need to be a USC to serve on a jury correct?

Yes Jury duty and voting are for USC's only.

[florida_guy07 0]

You need to be a USC to serve on a jury correct?

Yes Jury duty and voting are for USC's only.

Lucky immigrants...

[Nancy2015 2]

You need to be a USC to serve on a jury correct?

Yes Jury duty and voting are for USC's only.

Lucky immigrants...

I'd love to be on jury duty, I don't understand why people hate it so much.

[Killer_Clown_2009 0]

Thank you , I was not 100 percent sure why they would send me a notice to attend if I wasn't able to do so.

[Aymerlu 3]

You need to be a USC to serve on a jury correct?

Yes Jury duty and voting are for USC's only.

Lucky immigrants...

I'd love to be on jury duty, I don't understand why people hate it so much.

Well, at my job we don't get paid if we have jury duty unless we take vacation time. Then there's the whole issue of what to do with my kids while I'm sitting at the courthouse board out of my mind. Oh yeah....another thing, I'm a diabetic. The last time I had jury duty I started to seriously have some blood sugar issues and do you think they would let me eat a few M&M's so my blood sugar didn't bottom out? Nope. I hate jury duty.

[mozplay 28]

Thank you , I was not 100 percent sure why they would send me a notice to attend if I wasn't able to do so.

You were right in questioning it. I read in a post recently that someone dutifully agreed to to jury duty while holding only a greencard and is now in the fight of her life to sort things out. I felt so sorry for her when I read it.

Mo

[florida_guy07 0]

I would hate it because you never know, what if you get picked for one of those horrible murder trials. You could be there for months and plus knowing the smallest details of a murder must not be a fun thing.

[Dr_LHA 3]

You were right in questioning it. I read in a post recently that someone dutifully agreed to to jury duty while holding only a greencard and is now in the fight of her life to sort things out. I felt so sorry for her when I read it.

Yes, misrepresenting yourself as a US Citizen is a deportation offense. No excuse really, on the jury duty forms I've had they usually have a series of checkboxs for why you can't do it, and normally there's a big one:

[x] I am not a US Citizen.

[Lucky7 0]

My old co-worker who is USC was picked and he had to go back to the court 6 times and he didn't get paid for 6 days. Plus the court was 2 hours away from his house so he had to rent a car in order to get there. I felt lucky to be non-usc.

Can you imagine to be picked for a case like "O.J Simpson's"???? Your full time job will be Jury Duty.

[Donna A 4]

i think u would still have to go for the interview for selection and if they ask why u cannot serve duty u would tell them u r not an american citizen.

[elgringo 0]

Well, at my job we don't get paid if we have jury duty unless we take vacation time.

I thought that was illegal? Dont they have to pay you?

[Ladylethal 12]

In Brazil if you're picked for jury duty that's an automatic excuse at work and you still get paid. There's no such a thing as "you don't get paid if you go to the jury". How absurd!

Being a law graduate I've already seen many murder trials (spending entire days in court, once we were studying one that started at 8 am and was halted at 11 pm to start early the next day), and especially being a law graduate it'd actually be interesting to be on jury duty. But if there's this "no paid days at work" absurdity, then I guess I wouldn't want it.

[Killer_Clown_2009 0]

I read through the literature they sent with the postcard that I need to return (the disqualification reasons were buried in the literature). I don't know about in other states, but in this one, it says that employers are REQUIRED (by law) to pay you for the first three days, after that the state will give $50.00/day. I don't need to go for the selection, I just need to check off that I am disqualified and provide the reason along with my A# and send it back in to them.

Edited March 31, 2007 by jane2005

[Aymerlu 3]

Well, at my job we don't get paid if we have jury duty unless we take vacation time.

I thought that was illegal? Dont they have to pay you?

I thought that too so I contacted the state and they told me that if a place is privately own (the doc I work for owns all his clinics) then they can more less make up their own rules.