TromboneAl
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To avert the "Hey, do your civic duty" responses, I'll first mention that I've done jury duty a number of times. DW and I get called more than seems reasonable for a county with 85,00 residents. It's 35 miles to the court house, and trials are usually only held in the morning hours, so a week of jury duty means 6-7 hours on the road.
But the prospect of jury duty is doubly scary now, since, being retired, I'd have no excuse for getting out of a long trial.
So, I got my jury summons for June 18. I could either:
1. Just go and get it over with, or
2. Get an automatic 90-day deferral.
The advantage of option 2 is that I may have to serve only once every 1 year + 90 days rather than once every year.
The disadvantage of option 2 is that if the new date is inconvenient, I can't change it.
Advice??
But the prospect of jury duty is doubly scary now, since, being retired, I'd have no excuse for getting out of a long trial.
So, I got my jury summons for June 18. I could either:
1. Just go and get it over with, or
2. Get an automatic 90-day deferral.
The advantage of option 2 is that I may have to serve only once every 1 year + 90 days rather than once every year.
The disadvantage of option 2 is that if the new date is inconvenient, I can't change it.
Advice??