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...

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[antihip.livejournal.com]

I was called for jury duty in grad school, and was twice empaneled and twice removed via challenge. (To be fair, there were other contributing factors, I think: the first was for a medical malpractice suit, and my sister was in medical school [and said fact was communicated to the judge/lawyers during questioning]; the second was a sexual assault or harassment case, of a young woman against two young men, and I was fairly certain that the defense would want to remove as many youngish women from the jury as possible.)

Opinion in grad school was fairly split on whether over-educated types were removed: for every person like me who was challenged off, there was somebody else who served on a jury.