Jury duty

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I have never served as a juror though I have been called in to be a potential juror---they selected all the members before getting to me. I have often got the notices stating I might be called in for jury duty. I personally do not want to serve on jury duty. I submitted a paper to our courts stating two reasons I do not feel I should serve on jury duty---1. I have a bad leg that requires me to not sit for extended periods of time (blood clots), and 2. I have autism, and I feel it is difficult for me to keep my mind occupied on things I do not find interesting which could include a court case. I have never received notices for jury duty since.

One would think this is the case, but I tried that to get out of jury duty the first time I had to serve and I got selected.

ETA: Maybe I didn't take it far enough; I don't know.


The best way out is to lie if you can. Since I stink at lying, I don't doubt I could get selected to serve again.

Best to make-up a story that's related to what the trial may be about. If it's for a drunk-driver, say you were in a car-wreck with your best friend who died because you guys were hit by a drunk driver, if it's about a sexual assault, say you were raped as a kid, if it's about someone committing a murder, say a relative of yours was murdered ect.

I was very excited I was also one of the most vocal about my excitement during jury selection

This used to infuriate me. Thinking about it now though, I probably wouldn't mind doing it just once. Something tells me I wouldn't be too bad at it. Maybe I've just been watching too much Mentalist. If they go by your voting record, well, I've never voted, and don't plan to.

I have heard rumors that they use DMV records now since people were avoiding registering to vote in order to get out of jury duty and they didn't want people avoiding jury duty to cause them to not vote (so that would include if you have a non-driving ID from the DMV)

I registered to vote once but never voted.

If you have to have an id that isn't expired then I couldn't do it. My id expired almost a decade ago and they won't give me a new one.

Chances are, since it is expired they wouldn't know where to send your summons to. So you are probably pretty safe! lol