Yes! But when the court found out how hard of hearing I am they said they get back to and never did ! I got called a second time when I had a new last name but when they realize I who I was they didn’t want . I was never called again for jury duty , I would like to had done it once but I didn’t think it was fair for the person on trial .
At least 15 times I have been summoned probably closer to 20, I think I have served on about 4 juries.
I’ve been called twice but both times the cases were settled by last minute agreements and all of us potential jurors were dismissed.
Summoned but did not attend. I was willing and able to do so, but the defendant must have pled out. The summons letter had instructed us to call to confirm before coming in that day, and when I did so I found out that we weren’t needed after all.
I’ve been called several times. The first time was in Los Angeles County, and I was sent home early, they had their quota. The second time, I was placed on a jury. The case was an indecent exposure case, where a young guy was supposedly sitting in his car and exposing himself to teenaged girls walking by. One of the girls got her boyfriend to go after him and the guy took off and the boy chased him down, the girl called the cops at the same time and they stopped the boyfriend from doing anything to the guy. For some reason, which we never found out, the boyfriend was not called as a witness, although two girls were, and they both identified the guy. But there was one lady in the jury who was adamant that without the boyfriend there to prove that the guy the girl pointed out was the guy he chased down, she could not find him guilty, so we wound up as a hung jury.
I’ve been called about three times in Sacramento County, but have never served. There was one case where they brought in a huge number of prospective jurors, gave us all a long, long questionnaire that we had to fill out at home and return, and then picked jurors out of that. I wasn’t one of those chosen. I can’t remember what that case was about.
The other two times, I’ve sat around all day, got a two hour lunch, and then was sent home at about 3 PM without being even taken into a courtroom for questioning. The most boring days of my life. They even showed the same video all three times I was there.
This summer, I got a letter from the federal court asking me if there is any reason why I can’t serve on a federal jury, and I said no, but I haven’t heard back.
Last year, since I was being bored, I saw something in the newspaper that said that they were looking for county grand jurors (this is not trial jurors, these are people who investigate the county government and issue reports), so I applied. I had to go down to the courthouse and talk to current grand jurors about why I wanted to do it and what my background is, and then the current members said yea or nay on all of the potential candidates, and I got enough yeas to be called back. The grand jury then claims that they randomly selected members from the yeas, but since one of those “randomly” chosen was a former County Supervisor, I figured the whole thing was rigged. They came back to me a couple of months later and asked me if I was interested in doing it, since once of the current grand jurors had had to drop out, but I had a bitter taste in my mouth over the supposed random selection, and told them no.
Summoned three times by my county from about age 28 to about 35. Served all three times, two civil, one criminal. Have never been summoned since, almost 30 years now.
Two Decembers ago, was “pre-approved” for a federal jury panel. Did not want to serve, and was not called in the two week window that I was given.
Served on a grand jury in New York City. It was every day for a full month.
I was called but wasn’t picked. I (honestly) admitted that I couldn’t be objective in that particular case, and they let me go.
Summoned and did attend, but discovered during the initial prep talk in the chambers that I was as deaf as a post.
Was excused, and seeing I had the day off work anyway, waddled to our renowned Eye and Ear hospital to make an appointment to see an audiologist/ENT specialist.
What’s funny is I got to once be on a practice jury. This is where the lawyers argue the case before they go into real court and try to hammer down their case.
It was about 4 hours and I got paid well for it. I had answered an ad in Craigslist.
this was my experience, pretty much word for word, the one time I actually had to go in for the voir dire process.
Never been called, but my sister has been twice. Neither of my grandparents have either, and they are in their 80’s.
No nightmares, paranoia or mistrust, but it took about a year before I quit seeing the photos in my mind and thinking about what he did to her. This happened 20 years ago.
An odd coincidence - like me, the only time my mother served on a jury it was also for a murder trial. Hers was a fairly well-known case at the time, and it was a capital murder case (death penalty in Texas). The jury was sequestered for two weeks, and they found him guilty. She was a wreck for quite a while afterwards, lost weight, couldn’t sleep and so on.
Numerous summons ( literally dozens ), but only called to a court house twice. Ended up on the jury both times, once for a few days on a State civil case, once for ~7 1/2 weeks on a Federal criminal case.
I lived in New Jersey for 15 years and never got called. I was on one jury where the case was settled right after we got picked, and another for a minor criminal case. After that one the judge told us that since we showed up we’d get a summons every year. He was right. Never been picked again, but I was in the pool for a couple of murder cases, but luckily they filled the jury before they got to me.
Called once. Did not serve because my parents worked with half of the witnesses.
as a grad student, I got called more than once, always just after I left the vicinity. But they finally got me when I started working.
I went in and spent much of the day just sitting in the waiting room, reading. Then they announced that they’d decided to settle out of court, or plea-bargained, or something, and we were all dismissed. We never got called or interviewed or anything. I was surprised, because I thought that you were called for general jury duty, not for a specific case, and that settling one case just meant that you would be under consideration for some other case being tried that day. Apparently not.
Yes once but I called the number they listed on the form in the morning and it was cancelled due to inclement weather. That was late in a December.
Am a citizen and resident of the UK, where if I understand rightly, all “regular” citizens from age 21 to 70, are liable for jury duty; but it seems to be random as to who gets summoned for said duty, and who doesn’t. Many people whom I’ve known, have been summoned; many (to the best of my knowledge) haven’t. It hasn’t come my way in 46 years so far, of eligibility: to be honest, I hope it may never do. I’m lazy, and take little interest in this kind of stuff; but feel that if my number did come up, I’d have to do the business as conscientiously as I could.
Called lots but never selected. Lawyers get somewhat shy around debate coaches. 