The Buckets by Greg Cravens for April 02, 2014

Not the best way to instruct them in one of the obligations of citizenship.

In case you think people make too much fun of government work, as a six year government employee, I can tell you we don’t make enough fun.

I’ve been on local Jury Duty, plus was active in a Federal jury duty pool. I never got called to come in unless there was a specific trial already assigned to me.

Where I live, you only go the one day unless you are picked for a jury. you sit in a room waiting for your name to be called and if you are not picked then you go back to that room and sit till your name is called again. After 8 hours of all that if you are still not picked for a jury. You are alowed to go home and not come back till you get that letter in the mail again. And if you are picked and serve, you will not come back for at least 3 to 5 years. Been there done that…..

Thank you sir.

I don’t blame Larry for yawning…xxx

In Massachusetts we have a 1 day/ 1 trial system. Just by showing up, you’ve fulfilled your obligation for 3 yrs. If empaneled, you serve for the extent of the trial, if not you go home after the last panel is selected.

@T Hicks, three years! Our school’s kindergarten teacher had to go in to serve on the last day of school, two years in a row, no being let off for being a teacher of five-year-olds on their last day of school.

Our jury pool gets baby sat by the Sheriffs. One explains the whole, going up when your number is called (you really are assigned a number so that the lawyers won’t be biased by a name)..This keeps going for the entire day until all the trials on the docket have a jury. Everyone left over in the pool comes back in about 2-3 weeks to go through the process again. .Sheriffs are cool. They tell stories. Lots of stories. They also told us its better in Superior Court instead of Civil Court. Civil Court has small, tiny, airless rooms and cases can take forever!