Particularly if I offer the clerk a slug, eh? 
I’m going to bring my kindle, which has 450 books on it. Geez, I hope thats enough.
There’s free WiFi there, so when I get settled, I’ll check back in here with a report on what people are wearing.
Hell, from the sound of it, at least you’re wearing clothes! 
Oh. This is a serious suggestion. You might want to bring some Aspirin or other headache meds. Maybe not for you. But, someone is bound to get a headache and they will be eternally grateful to you.
I have uniform ibuprofen with me.
About 400 people here. Attire of choice is jeans, sweatshirts, hoodies-- this applies to all ages, male and female. A few guys in shirts with collars. One guy in a button down shirt and sport coat. He said it’s his third time on jury duty but he never gets picked. In my black jeans and deep rose cashmere sweater (got it for my birthday, first time wearing it) I’m dressed a little better than average.
It’s gonna be a long day. More later…
I had a guy show up in a kimono once.
I don’t know where the word uniform came from. Autocorrect, I guess.
It makes no difference whatsoever. I wore jeans and a clean tee. People on my jury wore everything from a 3-piece suit to baggy pants with suspenders. Nobody cares what you look like, only that you give due consideration to the evidence.
Still sitting here. Haven’t been called yet.
If you make it onto a jury, the Judge will prohibit you from posting anything about the trial until it is over. If that happens, please come back and let us know what happened.
Regarding the dress code, I think jury duty is like airplane travel, not nearly as formal as it once was. Still, most courts try to keep some standards and frown on things like tank tops and cut-offs. (or vulgar t-shirts).
Most jurors wear the same type of things they wear to work. Interestingly, perhaps, active service members in our county are advised to wear civilian clothes.
No one much cares what you wear during the selection process (within reason) but when I was on a jury the judge told someone wearing not very nice jeans to wear something better the next day. I wore khakis like work and was fine. No need for anything close to formal, but here in the Bay Area few people besides lawyers wear suits at any time.
So far, the only thing that has happened is we were sent for a 2 1/2 hour lunch break. The wheels of justice grind slowly.
I don’t know how it is in Texas, but here in New York City, you can sit for a couple of days without ever being put on a panel of prospective jurors.
I had jury duty a couple of months ago (in Brooklyn). I did end up on a panel, but the lawyers chose a full jury and an alternate before they got to questioning me.
That was it – I was free to go. If I hadn’t been put on a panel, I would have had to come back the next day.
You’re already doing your jury duty, so you don’t need any more advice, but here’s mine anyway. It’s based on my experiences here in New York, so factor that in.
Wear whatever you want. I mean, not Saturday night nightclub stuff, I guess, but whatever. Dress comfortably. You will probably be sitting there all day.
Bring a book. A big one. You may not be permitted to use a cell phone, so “book” does not include an e-book that you’re reading on your cell phone. Again, you could well be sitting there all day, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with nothing else to do.
That’s my advice, and I think it covers the topic of “how to prepare for jury duty” completely.
Here in Minneapolis, they have a program where if you can return within 20 minutes (work downtown and can be reached by phone), and aren’t selected for a jury panel, you can leave and go off to your job for the rest of the day (or until they call you back).
Works pretty well, since the court is in the middle of the downtown area, and a whole lot of people work there.
There’s wifi all over the courthouse, and we’re welcome to use it except in the courtroom. I have my kindle with 450 books on it. I’m over halfway through next month’s book club book.
Not talk on a cell phone I can see, but use one? Or a tablet or laptop? Our courts have wifi also. Not in the courtroom, of course, but here in Silicon Valley if they tried to block us from the net they’d have a high income riot.
Do they make you come for an entire week or just for a day? Here we check the night before to see if we’re needed - we might not have to go in the morning and check back in the afternoon. If we do go, and don’t get picked that day, we are free for a year. They are pretty good about only calling you in if there is a need - most of the time if I have to go to the courthouse I get to go to court also and at least fill out the form.
After lunch, the group of us prospective jurors reconvened in the hallway outside that particular court and sat for another couple of hours. Then a sheriff’s guy came and told us we were dismissed and he’d see us in three years. I have no complaints about the day. Read more than half of next month’s book club book.
I’d say 75% of the people there were in jeans, and no one was outrageously dressed in torn stuff with multiple piercings or anything. Frankly, they all looked like very nice people. I had some good conversations. Toward the end of the day several of us were getting kind of punchy in the hallway and mild hilarity ensued.
Thanks for keeping me company today. 
You are very welcome.
I didn’t want to say anything before you served on a jury, but I was secretly looking forward to hearing about a disagreement in the jury room where one person tried to “push around” the other people into seeing things their way."
I know what happens when someone tries to push you around and I was really hoping to hear about that. I’m sure it would have been truly delightful.
Oh well, maybe next year?
I was not looking forward to anything like that, so I’m glad I didn’t get picked. The case was drug possession, and the defendant was a young woman. I’m guessing she took a plea, since we were all dismissed. I have a lot of opinions about drugs and have worked for a couple of substance abuse programs. Chances are I would have been rejected anyway by one side or the other.