# How Often Do You Get Jury Duty? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-get-jury-duty/156840 "2003-02-22T22:14:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-get-jury-duty/156840/41 "2003-02-25T00:57:58Z")
I believe, but I may be very wrong on this count, that we can only be called on three times. I managed to get called three times in 4 years. Once was during the exam fortnight at Uni. Once was during semester, but it was estimated it would go for 5 weeks (!) so I got out of it by saying I could not miss that much Uni. The third time I went in with about 50 people, and they pulled names from a hat, they asked both parties if any of the people brought forward were problematic to their case, swore the accepted people in, and sent the rest of us home. A week later a cheque arrived for $35 as my payment for showing up. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-get-jury-duty/156840/42 "2003-02-25T01:05:35Z")
I’ve been called twice. The first time, I wound up in the jury pool immediately after I registered to vote. I was selected for a nothing drunk driving trial, where the perp should have pled. The second time, never got out of the assembly hall. I might have a chance again, because I had a questionnaire for federal jury duty show up in the mail a couple of weeks ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-get-jury-duty/156840.md?page=2)