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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
I hate jury duty and luckly have never been called in.
If I ever get stuck going I'll make up some story about being an equal opertunity racist looking to hang whoever is on trial. That should get me out. |
Yeah, saying that will probably get you off the jury, (especially a criminal jury), but using it as a transparent ploy (they hear this kind of crap every day) to evade jury duty it would probably annoy the Judge enough to make him excuse you only from his Courtroom, and send you back to the jury assembly room to cool your heels all day until you get herded into the next courtroom to try your luck there.
Listen, Judges all day have to listen to people claiming they are too busy, they are such busy, hotshot realtors, or such important businessmen to waste their time on jury duty, and that they are so much better and more important than ordinary citizens that they should not have to bother with jury duty.
That attitude will get them a lecture about how along with the benefits of citizenship comes the burdens, one of which is serving on juries. It won't get them off jury duty, though.
If you have an upcoming honeymoon, or a vacation (and bring the airline tickets to prove it), have proof that you are so broke the wolves are at the door, and need to be out looking for work, or are a legal resident of another county, or absolutely honestly can't speak English and somehow are a citizen anyway, all of those things will almost certainly get you out of jury duty.
But "big business plans" won't, and saying that you "are the sole owner of a small business" will get you a lecture that nowhere is it written that small business owners and people in business for yourself, are exempt from jury duty, and that if ONE small business owner gets excused, then ALL small business owners would have to be excused, so that won't fly.
Now if the jury is going to be a six month long murder trial, the Courts often hand out "hardship questionaires" for potential jurors to fill out, because it is understood that making people be on a jury every day for half a year is likely to cause some real, recognizable hardships.