On jury duty and on Broadway World
On jury duty and on Broadway World
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#1On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 10:17amThings are different than the last time I served. Lots of computers with internet access.We can surf the net while waiting to be called. And the air conditioning works and the seats are comfy.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#2re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 10:21amOne of my eccentricities is that I like jury duty. I find it fascinating and take it very seriously.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#2re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 10:25amI would love to be GIVEN the chance to find out about jury duty. I swear that when my name comes up, there are alarms red flagging me to NOT be picked!
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
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wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#3re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 10:28amI got sequestered once. I got dinner and a nice breakfast as well and a night at the Staten Island Holiday Inn where they shipped us from Brooklyn.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#4re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 10:31am
It would depend on the case for me. When I was called the case was a domestic violence/murder case in which one of the victims was a child. I prayed so hard that I wouldn't be chosen because I don't know if I could be unbiased when it comes to something like that.
My younger brother got an interesting case regarding a guy who was owed money for some land the government had seized.
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#5re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 10:34amI'd worry about that if the time ever came. I'm not even getting notices to get my foot in the door!
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
#6re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 10:42amI know in Jersey, you can only serve once every three years. If you have never been picked yet, consider yourself lucky. But then, nothing ever interesting happens where I live, so that's what made it boring when I went. Fortunately, they never got to question me before they got the jury picked out.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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#7re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 10:52amI'm in Jersey and the last time I got a notice to appear was for Grand Jury duty and that was about 10 years ago. I haven't gotten a thing since then. My friend gets a notice every year.
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
#8re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 11:36am
I've only been called once, during my senior year in high school. It was shortly after I'd turned 18 (in April, so very close to the end). Basically, I arrived around 8 or so and then just sat there for like 4 hours, reading magazines and watching TV. Total waste of my time, especially since it interfered with my attendance at school. I was usually an A/B student, but my senior year I got straight A's so naturally I also wanted perfect attendance. But, of course, that didn't happen. I remember being really pissed about that, especially since I wasn't picked for jury duty, anyway.
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Updated On: 8/17/09 at 11:36 AM
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#9re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 11:41am
The only 3 good things about NYC jury duty:
1)Lots of time to catch up on some books that have been sitting around
2)Lunch in Chinatown
3)Chances are pretty good that you'll run into one of the Law & Order episodes being filmed around the courthouse area
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wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#10re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 11:52amStill sitting around. Haven't seen any blast from the past people or anyone I know.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#11re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 12:32pm
I'm a stay at home mom with no family in the area that is able to watch my son, so I get a free pass on jury duty.
Wexy are you getting bored yet?
KFTC!!!!!
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#12re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 1:58pm
went to lunch, went to Tim Horton's for an iced coffee and a blueberry bloom donut and now i'n back at the computer.
Everyone is just sitting around on their laptops or at the computers they provide us with.
I am getting bored. Haven't seen or met anyone yet.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#13re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 2:27pmI know the feeling. I'm actually jealous to what they give you in the jury room. Nothing of the sort was allowed or offered when I went in April. We got an hour for a lunch break, and that was it.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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#14re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 2:31pm
bdwaygirl, my grandmother only recently got her first summons for jury duty. luckily for her, at 81 she's excused from serving.
::knocks on wood:: I've never gotten summoned in Jersey. I did, however, get a summons to serve in Massachusetts (when I was home from school over the summer), as did my roommate. who was not a US citizen at the time.
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-Kad
kazacalo
Featured Actor Joined: 5/25/04
#15re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 2:34pmDo they still confiscate cell phones if they have cameras?
#16re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:03pm
I just completed 2 weeks of grand jury. We were treated pretty well, laptops, cameras, phones allowed. Plenty of free time. But it was still boring. We had to be there every day, all day for both weeks. Still had to get up early every day and not make any daytime plans for 2 weeks.
I was so glad when it was over. they wait 6 years to call you again.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#17re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:21pm
Wexy,
Right now, just stand up and scream OJ WAS GUILTY!!!
You'll be out in 5 minutes.
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#18re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:55pm
"Haven't seen any blast from the past people or anyone I know."
Did you see Leslie Kritzer? She was there and got released today too!
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#19re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 4:01pm
There are many good ways of getting out of jury duty. Enclosed in this post is a video of one way that would not work at all. Just like anything in life don't do what Larry David would do.
The funny thing is is that in this episode they were filming a scene at Dodger Stadium, there was a man there who got arrested for murdering a little girl and he claimed that he didn't do it because at the time of the murder he was at the Dodger game. The cops found out that HBO was filming there that day and asked to see the tapes. Lo and behold they found out that the guy was right and that he was in fact at the game.
Larry David tries to get out of jury duty
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AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#20re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 7:07pmRemember the 30 Rock episode in season 3 where Liz tries to get out of jury duty? Dress up like Princess Leia, and that'll probably get you out of jury duty.
#21re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 7:17pmLook around for famous people. I was on jury duty with Norah Jones.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#22re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 8:18pmThey let us at 2:30. Thanked us for our great contribution to the justice system and said that we wouldn't called again until 2017.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#23re: On jury duty and on Broadway World
Posted: 8/17/09 at 9:37pm
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