First Time Voters: Are you ready for Jury Duty after the election?

[kombayn]

I remember back in '04. I registered then a year later ended up with jury duty, it sucks, takes up your whole week and you have to keep going back if they don't call you that day until the end of the week. Luckily I was only 19 years old at the time so I was quickly dismissed. But shit... Worst part about registering to vote is having to waste your time later at jury duty and it's usual for a bullshit one day case.

 

[Conza88]

Is there a jury when the Supreme Court considers a case?

 

[Alaxsxaq]

I don't really have an opinion on the concept of Jury service, but my experience being registered as a member of a third party, I've never been called to serve on a Jury. I'm not sure if my political affiliation is any factor, though.

If you want to have a whole lot of fun, get called for Grand Jury service. A colleague at work serves 1 week a month for a total 18 month term. It is possible to get out of it if your employer sends a letter saying that you are an essential employee which didn't happen in this case for whatever reason.

--Glenn

 

[pacelli]

I didn't realize that civilians could serve as jurors during a military tribunal...

 

[angelatc]

I remember back in '04. I registered then a year later ended up with jury duty, it sucks, takes up your whole week and you have to keep going back if they don't call you that day until the end of the week. Luckily I was only 19 years old at the time so I was quickly dismissed. But shit... Worst part about registering to vote is having to waste your time later at jury duty and it's usual for a bullshit one day case.

I've been registered since the age of 18 and I have never been called yet.

My friend sat on a high profile murder case that took months and months.

My husband sat on a jury that acquitted a guy of DUI because he had refused the breathalyzer. They said the state had failed to make the case. The judge was ticked, and came down to the jury room, with the prosecutor, after the verdict to find out what went wrong.

 

[ARealConservative]

If you wear a shirt propping jury nullification, you will never get selected.

 

[LittleLightShining]

I have never been called, either, and I've been registered for 16 years. I would love to serve on a jury. I don't care how stupid the case is.

 

[FindLiberty]

Yep, voter registration puts you on their list...

Get detailed info here. http://www.fija.org/

Hmm, it looks like you will have to settle for a bumper sticker assortment instead of the T-shirt.

If you tell 'em you KNOW YOUR POWER AS A JUROR, HAVE THE TIME TO SPARE, and REALLY WANT TO SERVE on jury duty (and/or know about FIJA), they will either throw you right into jail or more likely, they will politely ask you to leave the courtroom (you get off jury duty)!

 

[JosephTheLibertarian]

I remember back in '04. I registered then a year later ended up with jury duty, it sucks, takes up your whole week and you have to keep going back if they don't call you that day until the end of the week. Luckily I was only 19 years old at the time so I was quickly dismissed. But shit... Worst part about registering to vote is having to waste your time later at jury duty and it's usual for a bullshit one day case.

lol. Well, I don't mind. Free lunch, right?

 

[Conza88]

I have never been called, either, and I've been registered for 16 years. I would love to serve on a jury. I don't care how stupid the case is.

You're going to try sway the case aren't you...

Convince all the other jurors.. how to lay it down...

 

[SnappleLlama]

I've been registered to vote since I was 18 and have only been called once (murder case). Didn't get to serve, though

 

[pacelli]

Here's the problem. In a real jury room, if you dissent for appropriate reasons and the rest of the jury goes along with what the prosecutor wants, they come down on YOU because you are holding them up. They come down on YOU because you are wasting their time. They come down on YOU because you are making them late to pick up their child from day care. The majority of people hate jury duty, hate the process, and want it to be over with as quickly as possible if they can't lie their way out of doing it in the first place.

 

[acptulsa]

Twenty-six years continuously a registered independent, one call to serve. We were done in two days without being sequestered. Not a nibble since switching to a G.O.P. registration. I would certainly not consider it a jury of my peers unless at least a couple of folks like you sat in judgement of me. I would be very grateful to have you in such a circumstance.

 

[fedup100]

Just take a pocket constitution that lays out a fully informed jury. When it is your turn pull it out and splain you are ready for duty and know what a fully informed jurist's duty is. You will be sent home strait forth. The corrupt courts do not want an informed jurist.

Join Coppercards.com, I was on the 1st conference call last night. Creating a parallel country complete with car ins, health ins, safe free banking including loans and most of all large groups that are informed Johnny on the spot with the correct law to inform the goons that are attacking one of our own.

WE must come together as a peaceful group such as this to bring back a sane and Constitutionayl free country.

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

I remember back in '04. I registered then a year later ended up with jury duty, it sucks, takes up your whole week and you have to keep going back if they don't call you that day until the end of the week. Luckily I was only 19 years old at the time so I was quickly dismissed. But shit... Worst part about registering to vote is having to waste your time later at jury duty and it's usual for a bullshit one day case.

Shouldn't this be in the vent? ISTM it is just crying over the fact that you can't have your cake and eat it, too. Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand, or they go away.

Ben Franklin proclaimed to a lady, "We give you a republic, ma'am; if you can keep it." The "you" he refers to is YOU; each and every person who reads these words. To complain about civic service is to complain about the style of gov't we cherish. One, Of The People, By The People, and For The People. Such complaints, coming from an RP supporter, are absurd .

TPTB have things so screwed up now as to discourage participation. Posts like your's serves their purposes. While voting is toted as a drudgery, to many of the kool-aid drinkers; how many RP supporters do you think felt that way? Didn't we all make the best out of the whole process and have a little fun along the way? People are attracted to volunteers who have fun, (be a part of it)

Our prime mission is to encourage participation. Ignore the negative nancys, damn the torpedoes. Life will never be all fun and games, it is what we make of it, (and RP supporters are damn good at making it enjoyable).

Imagine a jury of nothing but RP supporters

Onward and forward

 

[BuddyRey]

I remember back in '04. I registered then a year later ended up with jury duty, it sucks, takes up your whole week and you have to keep going back if they don't call you that day until the end of the week. Luckily I was only 19 years old at the time so I was quickly dismissed. But shit... Worst part about registering to vote is having to waste your time later at jury duty and it's usual for a bullshit one day case.

I can't wait 'til I get summoned for Jury Duty! I'm going to come with about 15 copies of the Citizen's Rule Book, with info on Jury Nullification. That'll really screw up their little plans, won't it?

Oh please, let it be a tax case! *pray*

 

[Kade]

I will never sit on a jury. I would love to, but I am far too influential of a person... and I personally know that good defense lawyers or prosecutors with weak cases don't like principled heroes in the stands.

 

[Kade]

i can't wait 'til i get summoned for jury duty! I'm going to come with about 15 copies of the citizen's rule book, with info on jury nullification. That'll really screw up their little plans, won't it?

Oh please, let it be a tax case! *pray*

awesome.

 

[acptulsa]

Imagine a jury of nothing but RP supporters

I don't know if I'd like this or not. I suppose it depends on circumstances:

Is the law I'm accused of breaking just?

Am I guilty as hell?

If both answers are yes, I'd be screwed, wouldn't I?

 

[Danke]

If you wear a shirt propping jury nullification, you will never get selected.

Or worse yet, a RP t-shirt!!

I'd just tell them I'm in the militia.

But seriously, people on this forum are exactly the types we need on juries. So be stealthy during selection! (i.e. appear to be a big government supporting drone).