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lauriandres said:
In USA - how the court knows your real address? I guess in like elsewhere in the world - in USA you might have a house or apartment in different locations and you actually might live in a place, which belongs to somebody else?
And then while being in the jury group - can you basically do a coin flip and decide randomly after that whether the accused person is guilty or not?
And is it OK to state "i am afraid of court and criminals, i do not want to be near the court house at all" or will you be forced to be in jury team?
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It’s tied to your voter registration. Whatever address you register to vote under is the address for your jury duty summons.
It is a court ordered summons. You can be punished for not showing up. Not sure if that actually happens though.
I’ve never been on a jury (would be interested to do it once) but my mom has been. She said as part of the jury selection, they ask questions like “Do you know the defendant?” or “What are your thoughts about illegal immigrants?” Based on your answers, you could be excused or accepted.


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Each attorney has a certain number of jurors they can eliminate for no reason whatsoever - they don't want black women under 40 on the jury, or whatever. There are also specific reasons someone can be excluded, like knowing the defendant.

I have also never been on a jury. I was never called when I lived in Utah, which was for the first 43 years of my life. Since I've moved to Oregon, I've been selected 3 times, but never had to report. One time I actually forgot to call the night before to find out if I had to go, and I called them the next day and found out I was in the clear, I wasn't actually needed. And, yeah, like everyone else has said, I would like to do it at some point.
 
bigb said:
It’s tied to your voter registration. Whatever address you register to vote under is the address for your jury duty summons.
It is a court ordered summons. You can be punished for not showing up. Not sure if that actually happens though.
I’ve never been on a jury (would be interested to do it once) but my mom has been. She said as part of the jury selection, they ask questions like “Do you know the defendant?” or “What are your thoughts about illegal immigrants?” Based on your answers, you could be excused or accepted.


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The closest I've come was being called for a jury was a murder case in California, made it to the questioning phase. Iirc the questions were actually posed by the judge rather than by the lawyers. One of the attorneys used a preemptive strike to kick me off though. Can't remember if it was the prosecuter (because I was a UC Berkeley student, he might have thought I'd be too easy on the defendant), or if it was the defense (because I said I had a brother in law who was an FBI special agent).
 
So I got picked from the pool. The judge, and the defense attorney and prosecutor then question people in the jury box. “Anybody have a problem with police”? So, I raise my hand: “Yeah, when my wife’s car was stolen, the cops from the town where the car was abandoned waited 3 months to tell her they had recovered it before we had even woke up and reported it stolen. 3 months of storage fees. I had a problem with that. But I would never allow that to influence my deliberation”. I was booted off the jury. Figured it had to be the prosecutor who tossed me. Wrong. The defense attorney tossed me because the break in that the defendant was charged with took place a couple of blocks from where we lived, and he must have assumed I would want his client off the streets.
 
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I have served on a jury once. It was a drunk driving case. Not terribly glamorous. The defendent was pulled over and had a large glass of vodka on ice in the car. Like Big Gulp size. When the cop lights were turned on he hurriedly gulped all the vodka down to get rid of the evidence. The cops obviously smelled the alcohol and proceeded to breathalyze him. The breathalyzer machine did not work and it took 20 minutes to get a replacement on scene. The defendant's argument was that he was not drunk when pulled over and became drunk while waiting for the replacement breathalyzer because he drank all the vodka once
pulled over. They were trying to get the charges reduced to driving with an open container.
 
Scat said:
I have served on a jury once. It was a drunk driving case. Not terribly glamorous. The defendent was pulled over and had a large glass of vodka on ice in the car. Like Big Gulp size. When the cop lights were turned on he hurriedly gulped all the vodka down to get rid of the evidence. The cops obviously smelled the alcohol and proceeded to breathalyze him. The breathalyzer machine did not work and it took 20 minutes to get a replacement on scene. The defendant's argument was that he was not drunk when pulled over and became drunk while waiting for the replacement breathalyzer because he drank all the vodka once
pulled over. They were trying to get the charges reduced to driving with an open container.
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The suspense is killing me! Was he found guilty or not?

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Scat said:
I have served on a jury once. It was a drunk driving case. Not terribly glamorous. The defendent was pulled over and had a large glass of vodka on ice in the car. Like Big Gulp size. When the cop lights were turned on he hurriedly gulped all the vodka down to get rid of the evidence. The cops obviously smelled the alcohol and proceeded to breathalyze him. The breathalyzer machine did not work and it took 20 minutes to get a replacement on scene. The defendant's argument was that he was not drunk when pulled over and became drunk while waiting for the replacement breathalyzer because he drank all the vodka once
pulled over. They were trying to get the charges reduced to driving with an open container.
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Until you said "he" I thought you might be talking about my sister in law.
 
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