Jury Duty Take Two

[marcusmarcusrc]

I was somewhat surprised to see a jury duty summons in my mail today. But I had my little sheet attesting to the fact that I served this year already, so I thought I was all set.

Until I was partway through filling out the form, and realized that it was a federal jury duty summons. And you need at least five days of state jury service to be exempt, and I only have three... Anyways, I'm going to be postponing until late summer/early fall so it won't interfere with the thesis, because I hear that federal jury duty can be somewhat onerous (not one day/one trial like Massachusetts state jury).

Edit: For federal jury duty you have to be on call for 15 days, though "usually" you only get called in once...

Comments

[remcat.livejournal.com]

Huh, I got my state and federal jury summons in the same year too. Both times I was dismissed though.

I believe with the federal jury duty, if they call you in -- that day of waiting around is considered sufficient to fulfill duty, no?

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

If I read the forms correctly, then as long as you are on-call for the 15 days, you have fulfilled your duty even if they never call you in. But I think they can call you in multiple times during that 15 days if they want to. I think you could even theoretically serve more than once in that 15 days, but there I could be totally off base.

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

And apparently, I didn't read the form correctly. You are right - if they call you in, that is "normally" the end of your requirement (unless you are seated on a jury, of course)