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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Walk me back from the ledge here.  I'm heading into the Fairfax County Courthouse on Wednesday as part of the initial call of potential jurors.  I leave for my seven-day cruise on Sunday.  What are the chances that I will get called as an actual juror?  Does it fly if I tell them that I'm already booked for my cruise?  I would normally be happy to participate, but this timing just couldn't be worse.  Help![/quote]

I'm not in Fairfax, but in both DC and MD (the two places I've lived and been called) there's a number or link on the summons that you call and ask them to reschedule.  Usually you get 1 free reschedule where you can move it to a day that's more convenient to you.

In my case, I called, and rescheduled for a work trip, and then when the new date, that I had chosen, came around my kid had been scheduled for unexpected surgery that year.  When I called the second time, they asked a lot more questions because I'd used up my "unexplained" rescheduling, but they ended up canceling my jury duty altogether.  About a year later, I got called and went in but didn't get picked.[/quote]

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