08-14-2013, 05:22 PM
In 2009, I was on a jury 'pool' that had partial jury selected - only partially selected because the judge cleared the court for something else after the pool was sworn in - we even had to stay in the court until after 7 so the jury could be selected, but the judge kept getting other business to attend to... so he finally dismiss the pool for the next Monday, but the trial was delayed & then the trial was delayed every week from April until August...
The whole pool had to check every week to see if the trial was rescheduled... call after Friday 5pm to find out if you are on jury selection on Monday...
How do I know this time? I had just started as a long term work project & had to tell my boss every Friday that I might not be in on Monday...how to make points with a boss!
After reading this thread, it seems like this is a very common event here... another incident when the county really does not THINK about the process.... and how to make it something that people would want to do again (obviouly I would rather never do THAT again!)
I am very familiar with the way other states have "one day/one jury" and have never had a pool sworn in & follow the delays...also have never had the court take so little concern for the jury that they would deem their ... whatever... more important than the jury selection...
Oh, and there was finally a plea bargain accepted in the case early August...one week later I got another jury duty questionaire...funny thing was...NO ONE in the county could tell me how I could fill out that line about serving on a jury in the last year...as I served a jury POOL!
ADDED: Here the license is used - only know this as DH & I both got our this year questionaire...and only his DL is here, he votes on the other side...
The whole pool had to check every week to see if the trial was rescheduled... call after Friday 5pm to find out if you are on jury selection on Monday...
How do I know this time? I had just started as a long term work project & had to tell my boss every Friday that I might not be in on Monday...how to make points with a boss!
After reading this thread, it seems like this is a very common event here... another incident when the county really does not THINK about the process.... and how to make it something that people would want to do again (obviouly I would rather never do THAT again!)
I am very familiar with the way other states have "one day/one jury" and have never had a pool sworn in & follow the delays...also have never had the court take so little concern for the jury that they would deem their ... whatever... more important than the jury selection...
Oh, and there was finally a plea bargain accepted in the case early August...one week later I got another jury duty questionaire...funny thing was...NO ONE in the county could tell me how I could fill out that line about serving on a jury in the last year...as I served a jury POOL!
ADDED: Here the license is used - only know this as DH & I both got our this year questionaire...and only his DL is here, he votes on the other side...