Originally Posted by Lord Knows

In this vicinity jurors are selected from the registered voters, and thus must a usc and living within the jurisdiction. If you were to report and some how be selected it would be the basis for an appeal on the part of the defeated party. It could very well open you to the some sort of lability also. Not only would it be an embarrassment to the judicial system, it may lead to a total collapse of the process and downfall of western civilization.

My recommendation would be to reply honestly as to your status. Or walk across the Rio Grande from Mexico, which I understand entitles a person to most citizenship rights.

Originally Posted by Dogbyte

But you are an exception.! Scouse humour ranks right at the top of my list of funny people (in the nicest sense).

Originally Posted by lapin_windstar

Jury duty is not meant to be a moneyspinner, it's a civic duty. It's really sh1t that people are so offhand and callous about it. It's an important thing to do for your community, and if you were up for trial you'd want to be judged by people that aren't there just because they couldn't be bothered to skive out of it.

Originally Posted by Pony

I didn't suggest you should make a profit from doing jury duty, just that you shouldn't face financial hardship because of it.

Originally Posted by lapin_windstar

You said "Most professionals would be eligible to be excused...", but most professionals are employees who wouldn't be facing genuine hardship by attending jury duty, and they're often the loudest whiners. In any case, jury duty is a cost to be born as part of your membership of the community (and not an unjust one, imo).

Originally Posted by Sugarmooma

Jury summons in a lot of areas is from driving license records not voter registration hence the reason a lot of non citizens are summoned for jury duty.

Originally Posted by SafetyNet

Yeah, they use DMV records to send out jury summons.

I recently got my first summons during summer. And what an experience! Though I never got to the box to be questioned for selection, just sitting there and watching the process was pretty amazing.
It also helped that the lawyers and the judge AND the defendant were all gorgeous looking people. Sheer eye candy. Though the judge said real court is nothing like the TV shows, the people were certainly good looking enough to be celebrities

Originally Posted by Dogbyte

On a purely a personal note I believe that it is time to change our legal system from an accusatorial system to an inquistional system, so that a judge/Magistrates can interogate defendants.
Juries nowadays in the UK take little notice of the facts laid out before them in court and come up with stupid decisions based on their own beliefs and not the facts.Time for a change, me thinks !.

Originally Posted by Thydney

Because no one expects the inquisition

Originally Posted by Bob

passing yourself off as a US citizen when you aren't is a deportable offence if it hasn't been mentioned and would lead to a major ball ache when you do try and get citizenship...

Originally Posted by Bob

a lot are still waged though, and taking a week or two's hit on pay would have sunk us when we were up in maine.

Originally Posted by Dogbyte

On a purely a personal note I believe that it is time to change our legal system from an accusatorial system to an inquistional system, so that a judge/Magistrates can interogate defendants.
Juries nowadays in the UK take little notice of the facts laid out before them in court and come up with stupid decisions based on their own beliefs and not the facts.Time for a change, me thinks !.

Originally Posted by KJ2007

When my husband was selected to serve on the jury for a trial (it was at least 3 weeks long) he still received his usual pay from his employer, in addition the measly jury duty pay that likely covered parking and lunch. He's a salaried professional - I believe that's not unusual, otherwise you'd have all sorts of people claiming they couldn't serve.