Jury duty while on vacation with the kids

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Anonymous wrote:OH, god, when I had grand jury in DC about 10 or 12 years ago, I had to be there EVERY DAY, ALL DAY, 8:30-4:30, for SIX WEEKS. As in, leave my job for 6 weeks and do another job. Horrifying.

I did this, too. Luckily I was 23 at the time and low in the totem poll of my company so I wasn’t missed. It was interesting but took an emotional toll.

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Anonymous wrote:I was put into a jury pool, said I had travel plans for the following week, was picked to serve on a jury, and the judge was annoyed when I reminded her the day before leaving that I would be out of town for a week. Not sure if the trial lasted longer that they thought (4+days vs 1) but I was totally up front and they replaced me with an alternate and moved on.

Long time ago I was selected for grand jury duty (once a week for 6 months) and I had to miss 4 of the weeks due to work travel. They have enough grand jurors to hear the cases brought each time, but the clerks were so helpful in that usual DC kind of way.

DC is a strange place.

This exact travel scenario happened to me. Trial went long, they were annoyed even though I had told them during selection, and replaced me with the alternate. Which was kind of disappointing for me, because after sitting through a trial where the guy was outrageously guilty of a federal crime, I wanted to finally be able to talk about it with my fellow jurors!!

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I actually wanted to do jury duty, but the one time I was called I had to ask to not go because I had a baby at home. They’ll let you out of it.