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@ OP, don't you sound all high and mighty. Get the fuck over yourself, delegate and communicate with your client. If you've gotten to the point where you need a last minute excuse for getting out of jury duty I'm thinking you waited to long and made it an issue. Call the clerk as ask for a deferral, if you need this much hand holding I sure wouldn't want you managing my engagements as a client.
@SS, being an unemployed grandma doesn't make you any more or less qualified to be on a jury than being a "professional" does. it all has to do with your personal biases and ability to be impartial. an unbiased impartial grandma is more qualified to sit on a jury than a racist "professional" is.
@SS, and again, my point is that being a professional doesn't make you any more or less "competent" to serve on a jury than being an unemployed grandma does. I would rather have a jury of 12 impartial, unbiased unemployed people than a jury of 12 incredibly biased employed "professionals." I for example could never serve on a jury because of my personal views. There's a reason we have jury selection. And if i know i'm not going to be selected for a jury then it's a waste of time and an inconvenience for me to go, which is why i'd try to get out of it.
^So you're saying that you are completely incapable of objectively interpreting a set of facts and placing your personal views aside?
I had a similar experience a few years ago. Got selected to grand jury for an entire month during my busiest month of the year. The judge wouldn't let me out of it ....
And people who give lazy excuses to get out of jury duty are just huge pieces of shit.
It was stressful as hell, so here's a big 🖕to D1 above.
Basically when they swear you in, you agree or affirm that your decision will be based solely on the law. If you believe in jury nullification, a long held practice in common law, you honestly cannot respond in the affirmative and they kick you off.
There's a reason no one is exempt from serving. Also, I "served" and didn't even have to show up. It was good for 3 years. I would check the rules and see how your county handles jury duty.
@PwC4 weird that you do not possess the capacity to objectively interpret facts in a case. I thought PwC had a higher standard for who they hire. I didn't know they hire simpletons who are completely incapable of hearing a set of facts and objectively interpreting those facts against a set of rules.
I take it no one watched the video on jury nullification?
There are two famous instances that went both ways on the morality scale.
1: The law stated slaves who escaped had to go back to their owners; the jurors in the north agree that the escaped slaves broke the law, but they also believed the slaves should be set free.
2. The law states you shall murder. The southern jurors in the south agreed that the lynch mobs murdered and broke the law, but that they should not be persecuted.
Those are examples of historical jury nullification.
Georgia has jury nullification hard coded in the state constitution. Last bulwark against tyranny
Deloitte1 yeah I was desperate. I made my case to the judge. And he excused me. You got a problem with that?
^Then you didn't get out of jury service. You still spent a day in court and sat through jury selection...
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^ that approach sounds great until the nullification doesn't fit your agenda.
^Jury nullification is where a jury finds a defendant not guilty, even though accepting. That they broke the law because they don't believe the law is moral or fair. What does that have to do with getting out of service?
Most intelligent people are able to separate the two. They can have personal views but still possess the capability to objectively interpret facts and determine whether or not something fits the law. You're statement sounds like just a lame excuse to get out of jury duty. I dispute that you're unable to objectively interpret facts. I think you're just being lazy.
Just show up and do your civic duty. Don't like your civic duty? Renounce you're citizenship.
Also you can't know what the potential case will be until you actually go to court and sit for jury selection. If you're absolutely unable to be impartial then definitely say something at that time. Not going to jury service at all because "I cannot be impartial about anything that could ever come up because of my personal views" is a lame excuse and we all know it.
My father is a defense attorney. I've heard every story imaginable. So no, i cannot be impartial.
D2: The constitution is the highest law of the land, not an arbitrary statute. That's why judges can strike shit down upon interpretation. An example would be that some whacky federal law can be struck down as not being in the spirit of the 10th amendment. You can answer in the affirmative and simply have a different interpretation.