I got summoned for JURY DUTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[killer_carlson]

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!! !!!!

This is wicked. I always wondered what it would be like.

It came in a regular envelope and I have to respond in 5 days. Unfortunately I am excluded from being a juror (I knew I would be ineligible), but it's still cool to have been asked. I actually wish I could do it so I could see what it would be like.

I might have to hire Intensity Fan or another lawyer on here to do a constitutional challenge for me.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by fotze

One day Canada will allow the mentally infirm to serve on a jury

Pure win Fotze.

Why can't you actually serve?

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

Pure win Fotze.

Why can't you actually serve?

I think he is a scumbag lawyer.

[Azure]

I think he works for the government...or something like that. That might be it.

Or fotze is right.

Or, he is a scumbag lawyer.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by fotze

You can't be on a jury if your a lawyer? Thats stupid

I don't know, I was just guessing.

[metallicat]

Yeah, I believe killer is a lawyer.

I have been called on twice, but have not been selected. The whole process was actually sort of cool, and I would have liked to be a part of our judicial system.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Maybe he's racist. You can't serve jury duty if you're racist either

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner

Maybe he's racist. You can't serve jury duty if you're racist either

"Whole lotta honkeys in here..."

[Nufy]

Give em the chair !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cook em .....Cook em Reeaalllllll guuuudddd...............

I watched the Green Mile a few days ago...............

[killer_carlson]

You are excluded if:

you have been convicted of a criminal offense for which a sentence of imprisonment exceeding 12 months could have been imposed but was not necessarily imposed

you are confined in an institution

persons engaged in the administration of justice (cops, probation officers, employees of Alberta Justice, employees of Justice Canada)

barristers, solicitors, students at law

members of the council of a municipality or members of a board of trustees of a school district or school division

members of the privy council, senate or house of commons

members, officers employees of the legislative assembly of alberta

Judges

medical examiners under the Fatality Inquiries Act

witnesses summoned to attend before the legislative assembly or a committee of the legislative assembly during the periods referred to in section 36 of the Legislative Assembly Act


You are EXEMPT if you are:

a person whose conscience or religous vows preclude them from serving on a jury

a person who has served on a jury within the 2 years preceeding this summons to serve on a jury

a person for whom service on a juyr will cause severe hardship in respect of their health or livelihood or in respect of any legal or moral obligations they may have to others

a person who does not reside within a reasonable distance of the place where the court sittings are to be held

a person who suffers from a physical, mental or other infirmity that is incompatible with the discharge of the duties of a juror

a person who is unable to understand, speak, or read the language in which the trial is to be conducted

a person whose service on a jury would be contrary to the public interest because of that person's performance of urgent and essential service of public importance that cannot reasonably be reschedules or performed by another during that person's absence

a person who is 65 or older.

the disability one does not apply if you want to sit as a juror if you could see and hear adequately and to attend court in adequate comfort and will receive the assistance of a person, a devise or altered physical surroundings tha tht Court considers adequate to enable the person to discharge the duties of a juror.

(and I'm not sayiing why I'm excluded.....or if there is more than one reason...HA!)

[Titan]

But you did say "excluded" not "exempt" ...

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

I served on jury. It was a neat experience. And at the time was a nice little second job for a bit.

[photon]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

"Whole lotta honkeys in here..."

Lol that's exactly what I thought of.

[Eddie Bronze]

My old man got summoned for this many years ago. He went to the barn in the morning and did his chores, cleaned out the cattle, fed them, etc. He then proceeded to go to the court room without changing...on purpose. He didn't want to do it that badly. Needless to say he didn't get selected and has never been asked back, LOL!

My own plan was to copy-cat that program of Fresh Prince where the guy says he can tell if someone is guilty just by looking at them. I can't imagine the reaction you'd get.

[Ironhorse]

I was summoned and very nearly selected for that trial where the farmer shot the oilco workers(?) that were trespassing on his property. That would have been a long one...

[arsenal]

I got a jury summons once in the mail as well.
I was so not excited. Have to get time off of work, and you get paid very little for being on a jury.
But when I called the number, the trial i was supposed to be a juror for had been delayed or called off. So I never even made it to selection.

[alltherage]

Originally Posted by killer_carlson

a person whose conscience or religous vows preclude them from serving on a jury

So... you could just say "It's against my values to judge" and they just lay off? Crazy.

[MolsonInBothHands]

My wife served on a jury once, and it was actually a pretty high profile case in Calgary at the time. She let the bitch go too! LOL.

I have a brother-in-law who was summoned as well. He was released when asked his occupation. Butchers don't make good jurors I guess, go figure. I would love to get asked myself.

[DAN0383]

I'd find a way out of it, somehow. Jury money is pretty much nothing and I know my work would not pay me for it.

[LockedOut]

I got a letter a couple of months ago but like someone else I called the day before selection and it was cancelled. Too bad cause I would've got off work with full pay and was looking forward to it.