How to get out of jury duty: "Just tell ‘em you’re a doctor"

March 19, 2007

Dr. Wes on his jury duty experience.



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{ 3 comments }

1 Anonymous March 20, 2007 at 9:48 am

“$17.20 is not enough pay per day for jurors”

Damn – it’s $5.00 in my area of NJ…

2 Anonymous March 20, 2007 at 11:58 am

It is $40 in NYC.

3 Anonymous March 29, 2007 at 9:41 am

I just served as a potential juror -did not get chosen at the end, thank God- for two days. It was the most painful process I’ve ever been through, I felt like I was the one on trial for those two days. Of course, I made myself clear and I think that’s why I got dismissed, I don’t think it was because I said I was a doctor with people who needed me for their care; I assume in that case they would not have brought me back the second day; or is it that those representatives of the law didn’t really care about my patients?! The second day, however, I sorta had a good time, and made them laugh a few times with my strong opinions about how wrong trial by jury is; well, you may disagree, of course. But the bottom line is how I presented to them: would you invite an atheist to preach Sunday school? That’d be me sitting in the Jury Box.

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