OT/Question regarding bailing on jury duty?

[Griffins]

I've got jury duty the week after next, and was researching it. The site says that in LA County at least you have to prove you didn't get the summons, it is presumed that you did if it was mailed to where you normally get your mail.
I suspect other areas follow the same rules.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Griffins

I've got jury duty the week after next, and was researching it. The site says that in LA County at least you have to prove you didn't get the summons, it is presumed that you did if it was mailed to where you normally get your mail.
I suspect other areas follow the same rules.

Hey, Anthony, I'm supposed to start a trial that week downtown. If you're on my panel I'll get you thrown off so you can go home...

[Buythatcard]

Pretty funny that someone started this thread today. I just came back from my doctor about an hour ago, who wrote me a note to get excused from jury duty. It just happens that I have a severe hearing loss which would make it tough for me to serve.

For the first time in my life, I feel that having a hearing loss is not so bad after all.

[rdixon1208]

Originally Posted by Griffins

I've got jury duty the week after next, and was researching it. The site says that in LA County at least you have to prove you didn't get the summons, it is presumed that you did if it was mailed to where you normally get your mail.
I suspect other areas follow the same rules.

That's pretty silly....even for California. How could you ever prove you didn't receive something? Especially if you didn't know it was coming in the first place.

[ullmandds]

frank...thanks for your well thought out response!!!

believe me...I would have loved to be a part of a jury...the comeraderie of it would be refreshing and exciting to me! I would probably end up being the juror who kept the rest of the jury in deliberations for days!!!!!

but...just sitting around...doing nothing was a waste of time...and sucked!!!!!

[barrysloate]

In the Brooklyn courts if you don't have your name called the first day you are relieved and sent home. If you get chosen for a jury panel but they reject you, you are finished and are sent home. They used to make you sit for two weeks but it's been streamlined considerably.