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Originally Posted by Villager Joyce
We have both served. Mine was a First Degree with death penalty off the table. My husband has served five times, all criminal. Never has there been a subsequent date to check in. You showed up and spent the day. If not selected you returned next day or you were excused period.
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I have received Jury Summons five times but have never got past the VOIR DIRE. I did want to serve in four of these situations. The other one I was dealing with a lot of law related stuff.
These were in Sonoma County, CA where the Judge said he noticed me around the Law Library looking at their materials for survivors/victims of crimes. The Prosecutor bumped me of off the Jury. Probably because I helped prisoners when at the U of MN Law School through Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners. The Court was in Santa Rosa, CA. This was around 1995. Then in Pinellas County, FL., around 2003 where they booted me because I had a law degree but I had also been checking their law library for stuff to help survivors/victims of crimes. The Sumter County 2007 Summons I just told them I was busy with getting the Florida Victim Services Directory connected to libraries and why I wanted to do that. At least, that is what I think I did. The Ocala Federal Jury Summons connected to the same experiences of me and law libraries and I did the May 2014 Sumter County one. They keep you on a tight rein up there so I could not check out if they even had a Law Library up there in Ocala in the Federal Building. They do not want you talking with other people all that much when in the Jury Pool.