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What is jury duty?

What do you do during jury duty (please answer if you've had jury duty)?

  • i have it for the 1st time and i was just wondering what you actually do during jury duty. can i bring my laptop/electronics? will we be provided lunch? what are my chances of getting selected as a juror? any input would be helpful, thanks!

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    Expect a lot of waiting during the day. Many people bring eReaders or books (though you have to put them away while you are in court). During the selection process, listen carefully and answer the judge's and the attorneys' questions clearly and truthfully. During the trial, LISTEN. After the presentation of testimony, you will be asked to deliberate and to make a determination of the facts of the case before you. The judge will give you written instructions about the issues before the jury.

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Basically, you show up at 8 AM and won't be called back until around 2-3 PM. They will let you go for lunch if your still waiting to be interviewed, but you only get like 20-30 minutes. When you get interviewed it'll be a group thing. If you don't want to be picked to be a juror, don't volunteer to answer any questions, only answer the ones asked directly to you, and answer with short answers. If you want to be picked, act enthusiastic and answer questions to great lengths. Basically it's a waste of a day and it's really boring. Oh, and don't bother dressing up. I did, and everyone else showed up in torn up jeans and a t-shirt.

Tiffany

I give inappropriate answers during the selection process until they send me home.

Face da Change

Sit around any wait

It depends on whether you're selected for a jury or not. While you're still in the jury pool, it's really just a lot of sitting around and waiting. In some places you can bring a laptop, but you may or may not have internet access, and I would check in advance to make sure it's allowed... and if you *are* allowed to bring one, show up a little earlier than everyone else so you can get it through security (I've always just brought a book with me to avoid hassles at the door). You will be given *time* to go to lunch, but they will not provide you with food. Your chances of being selected depends on your answers to any questions asked of you during jury selection. It will depend on whether or not both attorneys feel you can be fair and impartial on the case being presented. And of course there's always the possibility that they fill all of the seats on the jury before you're even called up, in which case they'll either send you home for the day, or send you back to the jury pool until they're ready to select for another case.

raina_vissora

Whether or not you are allowed to bring your laptop and other electronics is up to the courthouse. Each jurisdiction does it differently. Same goes for whether or not lunch is provided. You'll spend a lot of time sitting around and waiting, so make sure to bring plenty of reading material. Other than that, you'll be in a courtroom hearing testimony from witnesses and seeing evidence or deliberating on the case with the other jurors.

jeffrey f

Listen and see all the evidence presented by both the prosecution and the defense to be able to discern beyond the shadow of a doubt that the accused is guilty or innocent

Kelly B

bring whatever you want you sit in a room for a couple hours then you go home and tell work you where there all day

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