Klarinet Archive - Posting 001395.txt from 2004/03

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Nancy Jury Duty
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:25:51 -0500


>From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@-----.net>
>
>I have served on the Grand Jury twice and on the regular jury 4 times. I
>don't feel that I should have to forfeit hundreds of dollars for this
>sitting. They can reschedule me if they want, but I have done my civic
>duty more than once over.
>
>Nancy

In most situations, our clerks will work with people called for jury duty,
running from blocking out a week or two for vacation to what they call the
seven-day panel. In the case of the latter, the prospective juror is simply
asked, pick seven days over the next three months that you can serve. The
7Ders only come in if it's their seven days. Most self-employed people can
claim a hardship exemption -- if there is one.(We had one guy who _owns_ six
very profitable furniture stores. The judge didn't buy that one.) Of
course, you probably should avoid month long sequestered capital murder
cases. <g> (Now, this applies only in Tennessee State courts, in general,
and the 22d Judicial District specifically. I don't pretend to understand
how the Federal Courts work. I know some of their appointed-for-life,
never-known-to-be-wrong, one-level-below-God judges are a trifle unbending
when it comes to jury duty.)

Jim Hobby

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