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Originally Posted by patfla06
I got a Juror Summons for Federal Court in Ocala for
this Mon., July 3rd.
So I called the number and I've been excused.
Now they tell me to do the same thing 3 weeks from now.
I didn't know they could just " roll it forward" like that.
Has this happend to anyone else?
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Yes. I believe so. Back in 2009. I did eventually go up there and then got excused because the Judge thought I was not telling him everything with his questions. I would have had a very hard time doing that as you have no warning about what kind of case they might put you on and then when the case comes up the questions are related to that. In our legal dispute, we got an employment discrimination accusation made by a Hispanic bilingual Claremont police officer who wanted to write his reports in Spanish and he was allegedly harassed because of this by some of the other officers. So, the questions the Judge asked were about relations with police departments, employment discrimination, experience supervising people, etc. Did you know any of these Claremont police officers, lawyers, other jury members, etc.
They deal with all kinds of cases that have Federal Jurisdiction.
Good luck with this.
The jury found for the Claremont police department but the Judge had some harsh words for the alleged harassers. It was in the Orlando paper and might have been on one of the local news stations too.
Then I got another Sumter County Jury Summons in May of 2014. Had one first around 2007 but told them I was busy with legal stuff. So, I knew I would eventually get recalled by the Sumter Court Clerk of Court. The defendant plead guilty in that matter so the whole jury pool got to go home. I had e-mailed the Clerk of Court a rather lengthy narrative of my experiences with the legal system so as not to blindside them when they started in with the VOIR DIRE questions as they can get extremely complicated in answers for some people.