What?!

[azekeil]

And now they want me to do Jury service!

Haha.

Aaahahaha.

AAAAHAHAAAHAAHAAA!!!11

Comments

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

Then this might be of interest to you.. *grin*

[ninneviane.livejournal.com]

Do you want to do it?

If you don't...you don't have to.

People under extreme stress and/or depression don't have to, in fact they can't.

That's how I got out of mine ;)

[gerald_duck]

String 'em up - it's the only language they understand!

[dylan.livejournal.com]

Don't you have to be of sound mind?

:)

[teadaemon.livejournal.com]

I did jury service a couple of years ago, in Sept 2001 (I was in the waiting room watching TV when the whole 11/9 thing kicked off, but that's another story).

I actually found the case I got to try quite interesting, it was an armed robbery in Telford and the bloke they'd caught was guilty as hell. Having said that, liamp spent a week listening to too much information about polycarbonate, trying some bloke over conspiracy to defraud Birmingham city council.

If you have a good reason, by all means get yourself exempted, but it really isn't that bad, and even crap employers have a hard time doing anything about a jury summons. In fact, I believe they can be done for contempt of court if they hassle you too much (it wouldn't surprise me, pretty much anything can be contempt of court if it pisses a judge off).

It can be quite amusing. I was in the front row of the jury and kept getting pointed out by witnesses. Once because the accused had been wearing something the same colour as my shirt, and once because I had a similar haircut (#1 all over) to the accused at the time of the offence.

[r0ach.livejournal.com]

They ignored my defence of being a contractor and not being recompensed enough so the one that clinched it was that my former job of being a Fraud Officer in the Civil Service (they never checked) might make me disinclined to treat some of the 'clientele' even-handedly.

That one worked :)

[angelkjg.livejournal.com]

My Operations Manager has been called up for Jury Service too. He has been called up for the last 2 weeks leading up to Christmas. Unlucky. When are your prosed dates of service?

[freiga.livejournal.com]

but you get to play god with otehr peoples lives!!! you might enjoy it?

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Chop their goolies off!