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    Quote Originally Posted by revchuck38 View Post
    I was called up for jury duty. When questioned about my Army experience, I noted that I had worked both as a counterintelligence agent and interrogator. I wasn’t chosen.
    Military service will sometimes get you off a jury. There were 3 of us that got bumped from a murder trial. I never figured out why but I was happy to get cut loose.
    In the P-F basket of deplorables.

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    I haven’t been called since I was a working commercial liability insurance underwriter, but my luck was such that I always got called for criminal court. IIRC I was called six times, picked four, and returned a verdict three times. I was stuck as foreman each time. Enough.

    I assume if I ever get called for civil if the case in any way involves insurance I’m out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blues View Post
    ...if your wife gets voir dired for ...

    So we got that going for us... though both of us are willing to serve.
    Well, not always. A couple of months after I retired, my wife got called for jury duty in the county we both worked in. She is a retired correctional deputy as well.

    She still made it on the jury. We were shocked, and so were the courtroom deputies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erick Gelhaus View Post
    Well, not always. A couple of months after I retired, my wife got called for jury duty in the county we both worked in. She is a retired correctional deputy as well.

    She still made it on the jury. We were shocked, and so were the courtroom deputies.
    Shocking in CA. But maybe it's a positive sign...

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    I only got summoned for jury duty where I had to answer questions. This was when I was 19.

    Judge: What's your name?

    Me: Paul D.

    Judge: Is your dad a doctor?

    Me: Yes. His name is so and so.

    Judge: Oh, he's my doctor. You are dismissed!

    I have never been selected to a jury pool ever since.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul D View Post
    I only got summoned for jury duty where I had to answer questions. This was when I was 19.

    Judge: What's your name?

    Me: Paul D.

    Judge: Is your dad a doctor?

    Me: Yes. His name is so and so.

    Judge: Oh, he's my doctor. You are dismissed!

    I have never been selected to a jury pool ever since.
    Physician, heal thyself!

    There's nothing civil about this war.

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    Jury duty was fascinating the time I was called for it. It was a drug possession case and the questions for selection hovered around whether one had any addict relatives or immediate LE family. I had neither and therefore had no out. I also didn't have enough lack of ethics to lie about health problems or whatever other excuses people try on the judge of which people were throwing out tons.

    The most fascinating aspect was just watching the lawyer show. Those folks are pretty skilled at swaying opinions and building narratives.

    Jury deliberations sucked. People waffle so hard sometimes on basic facts.

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