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Doing time… (on jury duty)

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Jeremy Toeman

IMG_3819 jt jury dutyMy first 20 years in the US were as a green card holder, so any time I received a juror summons, I was always able to check the convenient little “I’m some kind of hippie commie who’s stealing jobs from Americans” checkbox.  Now, as a law-abiding God-fearing AMERcan living in a nucular family, I’m out of excuses.  The weird part is, I really like the idea of serving jury duty.  I’d actually love to see the internal workings of a courtroom, get really into a case, debate the issues, and be part of the process.  It’s the pesky “carving out the time” part that’s a little problematic right now.

The good part is, the summons waiting room has WiFi. 
The bad parts are, it’s not free, it’s slow, and it drops connections every 10-ish minutes.

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I’ll be here all day (unless I’m lucky enough to get called up soon and get eliminated), doing some work, maybe watching a little Slingbox, or, thanks to my friend Michael Gartenberg, playing Peggle (yes, I paid for it too – such a timesucker!).

UPDATE: time off for good behavior!  I’m outta here.

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2 thoughts on “Doing time… (on jury duty)”

  1. mersh says:
    March 29, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    surprisingly, you can get wi-fi throughout the entire courthouse (for a nominal daily fee). not surprisingly, the crappiest coverage is in the downstairs waiting room.

    and “I’m an illegal alien and don’t speak English very well” is also not a proper excuse to duck serving on the jury. if anything, your peers will make you foreman for it.

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  2. Andrew says:
    March 30, 2007 at 8:02 am

    Making racial slurs anytime you open your mouth is an easy way to get off the case though. Much like yourself I was excited to serve on jury duty early last year – getting to know how the process works and serve my country… it ended up being a really interesting criminal case that I was fortunately not “appropriate” for…

    you’ll have to let us know how it went.

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