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On 4/12/24 3:42 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article
> <712400235.734590676.026739.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>   anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:47:40 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So first you take a cab to the bus stop or have the girlfriend drop you
>>>> off. Then you spend an hour or two on the bus (starting at six in the
>>>> morning) to get to the bad neighborhood where the court is. Then you go in
>>>> And sign in and sit. And wait. This is your Monday. If they don't get to
>>>> you, you get to repeat it Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday. And Friday.
>>>> If they never get to you Friday, you're excused. If you're chosen, you
>>>> can get a trial lasting anywhere from one day to six months.
>>>>
>>>> But the bastards lie to you and say you can't be excused because it's
>>>> only one day of your time.
>>>
>>> I was excused on compassionate grounds once - the court date was about
>>> 3-4 weeks after my mother (who was the driving force behind the family
>>> business) was fatally run over at an out of town trade show)
>>>
>>
>> We used to have a half a dozen different grounds you could ask for an
>> excuse on. They had a list on the form and you check it off. I know they
>> had indispensable to business. And I got out of it once as a caregiver when
>> I was able to convince them there wasn’t anybody else. And they had
>> financial hardship if it was gonna cost you 1000 bucks or something. But
>> that was back in the 20th century and bit by bit they removed them until it
>> says there are no excuses because it’s only one day.
>>
>> But even that’s not true. They will still take a medical excuse if your
>> doctor will write you a note.
> 
> In CA,


Are you talking about California or Canada?



  there's exceptions written into the law that they have no
> discretion about granting. If you meet them, it's an automatic pass.
> 
> One of them is that you can decline to serve if you're a certified peace
> officer (cop) and they have a whole list of like 20 different types of
> cops that qualify, everything from a standard beat cop to a fish and
> game warden, but federal agents are nowhere on that list so I still had
> to go about six years ago when I got the notice.
> 
> I actually ended up serving on the jury. I was stunned. During voir dire, neither the prosecution nor the defense seemed to have any
> problem with me being both a lawyer and a federal cop. (It was an
> aggravated DUI case.)
> 
> Even the judge, who has everyone's forms up on the bench, was perplexed.
> As they were about to move on to the next potential juror, she stopped
> them, then asked me if I would have any problem presuming the defendant
> innocent given my background in law enforcement. She was obviously
> trying to signal to the defense that I was a cop in case he missed it. I
> said I felt I could and the defense still asked me no questions and
> didn't object at all.
> 
> So I ended up getting picked for the jury. My boss didn't believe me. He
> thought for sure I was just saying I got picked so I could take a few
> days off. He even showed up in the courtroom to watch one morning of
> testimony.
> 
> (We found the guy guilty.)