<p>I have jury duty coming up on Monday, which inspires this question for the forums.</p>
<p>Have any of you been called for jury duty while away at college? What do you do? It says you can ask for one rescheduling, but what if they reschedule you again while you are away? </p>
<p>Just curious. What happens?</p>
<p>I’m proof that not registering to vote but having a license does <em>not</em> exempt you from jury duty. Literally got a notice 2 months after my 18th.</p>
<p>If you’re a full time student you can usually be excused over the phone. Especially so for me since I live OOS (not during the summers but they don’t know that).</p>
<p>You can be summoned for jury duty while at college. You will not necessarily be granted an exemption. I’ve heard of full-time college students who were still asked to serve. Courts like juries to be diverse groups.</p>
<p>My mom had Jury Duty.</p>
<p>They basically ask two questions, which would usually excuse you: Do you work in a law office? Are you related to a police officer?</p>
<p>My mom works in a law office and is married to a lawyer and her father was a police officer.</p>
<p>She still had to serve on two juries.</p>
<p>But if you have jury duty on Monday, then does it conflict with school? I didn’t think any schools were back in session yet.</p>
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<p>It can depend on the situation. Sorry but I don’t think there is a definitive answer here.</p>
<p>Depends on the state.
In California students called to jury duty can reschedule for the summer. I assume other states probably have similar policies.</p>
<p>Most places allow you to call and defer your jury duty until a time that you are on school break.</p>
<p>But in reality, it depends on the judge. Each judge sets their own rules.</p>
<p>The most important thing is to take responsibility and CALL the courthouse to explain your situation. Don’t just ignore the summons.</p>
<p>Depends on the state, but it can usually be rescheduled.</p>
<p>I personally solved the issue by registering to vote where I go to college. I’ve been summoned in both places, but I got out of the one back at home since I no longer lived there, whereas the one for college: I showed up.</p>
<p>As for the inconvenience caused: it’s basically a civic duty that everyone is subject to. Life didn’t allow me to reschedule myself at all when I broke my wrist some time back. It’s kind of like that with jury duty, except much more flexible.</p>
<p>Jury Duty sucks, I did it 3-4 weeks ago. I’m 20 and it was my first time. Went in 3 days 9-5 and the case was about government taking a corner of a 2 acre property. What I hated was that every witness was asked about 30 mins of background questions that were unrelated to the case.</p>
<p>It got interesting in some parts especially when one of the witnesses got into it with one of the lawyers. But 99% of the trial was boring.</p>
<p>I personally don’t have a conflict issue, I’m not taking classes right now (but there are classes going on, I easily could have been enrolled in classes). I was just wondering what you guys did when there is a conflict.</p>
<p>Just tell them that you can’t be impartial. Make up a reason why you’d be either biased towards the vic or towards the accused.</p>
<p>I had jury duty a few months ago, but was disqualified based on the “partiality” questions (i.e. Do you know anyone related to this case? Have you or a family member ever been involved in this type of case?) that they ask when they first bring the jury pool into the courtroom. So, I guess I was “lucky”…</p>
<p>(Though it would be interesting to serve on a jury at some point, I guess.)</p>
<p>Anyway…</p>
<p>In my state (MA) if you expect there to be a conflict when you get the initial summons, call immediately. They will reschedule you to a more convenient date. The summons also lists exemptions for jury duty (i.e. must care for a disabled family member, has a severe disability that affects ability to serve).</p>
<p>I have also heard that in some states, EMTs and volunteer firefighters are exempt from jury duty, as they are already fulfilling their “civic duty”, but I don’t know which states these are.</p>
<p>Whatever the lawyer asks you start your response with, “Well the good lord always says…” You’ll get exempt no problem.</p>
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<p>If I lived in MA I think I would opt for the “severe disability” excuse</p>
<p>If they ask you what the severe disability is, just say:</p>
<p>" I’m too stoopid to figure out how to get out of jury duty "</p>
<p>Please forgive me for that quite insensitive Post #15 immediately supra … but the ‘inspiration’ for it came from a real life experience I had some yrs ago</p>
<p>As my faithful readers here at CC know, I am not only the parent of two succesfully graduated college students, but I was also a faculty member at Brown University for 24 yrs [ retired now ]</p>
<p>As such, and due to my area of expertise, I am occasionally asked to either provide expert testimony or consult in cases of litigation</p>
<p>People usually think of such ‘hired gun experts’ as willing to swear to whatever the attorney paying their fee wants them to say … but my ‘Ground Rule’ is that I’ll review any case for an hourly fee, and then give the client’s counsel my honest opinion … if they like what they hear, they’ll sign me on … but I personally would never commit perjury just to make a buck</p>
<p>Anyways, there was this case I was asked to consult on for a defendant in a lawsuit … IMHO the client had no liabilty whatsoever, and I was willing to testify to that … and the client wanted to fight this ridiculous lawsuit all the way to the SCOTUS, if necessary …</p>
<p>But the guy’s attorney wanted him to settle. Why?? Because the case was highly technical, involved ‘grey areas’ of both fact and law, and would be --shall we say – ‘difficult’ for the average laymen to comprehend</p>
<p>If this had been a criminal matter, I would have recommended a ‘jury-waived’ trial, where the Judge is the final “trier of fact” … but in civil cases, the plaintiff can demand a Jury trial, there’s no other option</p>
<p>So we’re all in this meeting with the client, who’s basically demanding to fight, fight! fight!!
… because he, and all of us, knows he’s in the right</p>
<p>But then the attorney drops this bombshell on him:</p>
<p>" Do you <em>really</em> want to put all of your assets — <em>everything</em> you’ve ever worked for in your entire life — into the hands of twelve people who were too stupid to get out of jury duty ?? "</p>
<p>After a loooong, pregnant pause, the client sez : “I guess not”</p>
<p>Case closed / settlement for plaintiff …</p>
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<p>I can cite numerous examples of medical malpractice cases where the plaintiff “experts” were saying certain things were standards of care when an army of real doctors (you know…ones who do more than be “experts”) would say otherwise.</p>