I had a Sheriff tell me recently that the country court finds candidates based on voter registration only.
How many of you guys that actually got a no-show summons answered the letter that came asking you to sign up?
Usually the key is NEVER answer the letter no matter how threatening it is. If you answer it ... then don't show up .... now you got a possible problem.
I've dodged the bullet a couple of times now just not responding to the letter ... heck, for all they know I am out of town for two months .... next time I might have to break down and go if business is slow enough ... I do feel the call to do my duty .... just in my case being self employed ... jeez, do they realize how bad it could screw me over? I mean bad, bad ... my big jobs are few and far between. I have clients that sometimes need major fabrication done at about two weeks notice (yes I tell them not to do that but they do) .... so I could lose a $5k job in the blink of an eye ... and worse yet ... the client finds a new option and I lose them for good.
Yes I can, and have, worked literally all night, quite a few times to finish a job .... I'd have to do that the entire time I was on a jury .... so I wouldn't be a very good juror either.
In my opinion, like others have said, TONS of intelligent, experienced retired people that would LOVE to be professional jurors .... say $500 a week ... and the government saves WAY more than that by not having to send out thousand of letters, tons of paper work, hundreds of hours of fruitless interviews.
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