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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I believe it is $15.00 per day unless you are off of work with pay then it is nothing for the first few days. This is for Sumter County.
I doubt if they will want me on the Jury with all my baggage as I have some kind of connection to just about every kind of case that might come up. Lots of interactions with survivors of crimes from February 25, 1976 onward, some with inmates and ex-inmates, more with insurance claims people through father, others through various first responders among relatives, etc. My Uncle Alvin was the Itasca Fire Chief in 1979 when Flight 191 went down and he told me about his memories responding to that with his people. Very traumatic for these people.
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Got a call from the Clerk of the Court or her agent telling me that the Judge or a Judge down there had OKed my request to be excused for Jury Service due to what I had written them.
That is a weight off my shoulders. I just wrote basically that I am the primary care taker of my senior parents both of whom need the help at times. I have really not been anywhere since a week in the DC area in 2015. I do need to be around except for a few hour breaks here and there.
I would have liked to have served as serving on a Jury is a real duty of a citizen IMHO and a safeguard on our liberties to actually have juries even if some of the decisions made by them have you really questioning just how logical people are and/or are able to be sold a very questionable story by some lawyer(s).
I probably would have been bumped as soon as I started talking about my law degree and how I have used it since 1991 and it would have confused the hell out of the potential jurors. And it is even more complicated since Valentine's Day of 2018.
I could have told them about the 1983 Slide Mountain (near Lake Tahoe, NV/CA) mudslide on Memorial Day which occurred a 1/2 mile or so where I was working my last day at a food service concern at Bower's Mansion and where my Dad later handled the insurance claims of some of the homes destroyed by that massive slide. I have many stories like this of misadventures involving the legal system and my being somehow connected to them.
Then there are those 40 or so cases I was involved with as a Student and then Student Director at Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners in the Summer of 1987 through early May of 1989. This was while I was a student at the U of Minnesota Law School. Many of these 40 cases had been covered by various Minnesota newspapers. I mean the matters that put these people in prison not the quite mundane legal matters us law students and our supervising lawyers dealt with.
And then my trip to Reno, Nevada in the Summer of 1989 as the cataloger of all the computer files on WESTLAW during the American Association of Law Libraries convention and how this return to the town I had grown up in brought back all kinds of memories. Including the 1983 Memorial Day mudslide and many other events worthy of various newspaper articles. Happy Birthday to me.