Jury Duty - Hawaii only please

[csgray]

I have been "on call" for jury duty for a month. The date keeps getting changed so I keep having to get a substitute teacher, write lesson plans for a week, and then cancel and reschedule. I talked to the judge's clerk about how hard that is on everyone involved, and since this judge likes having teachers on juries (I guess he thinks we can follow directions) there is no way out for me if I don't flat out lie to the judge.

I know our legal system requires citizen jurors, and I really don't mind serving, but the way jurors get jerked around in terms of knowing when they will be serving is unconscionable. If I was retired, or still was self employed I would serve with a smile, but the current system has already cost me hours and hours of work writing lesson plans for a sub, who reserved her time for me, and then didn't get used.

I have gotten all sorts of advice on how to "get out" of jury duty, most of it along the lines of: tell the judge you could never send someone to jail, or tell them you know the accused must be guilty, or else they wouldn't have been arrested, but I am not willing to try to game the system that way. Dentists for some reason are exempt from serving, other than that it is hard to get out of jury duty here.

Carol