audreyh1
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I appeared for a Grand Jury Summons this week.
I was pretty worried about it over the holidays because I knew it could be a long commitment, and DH has a medical procedure scheduled early Feb and I was in the middle of getting estate taxes pulled together due this week, plus the county courthouse is pretty far away with major interstate construction going on. And we have only the one vehicle. I just had no idea what to expect.
In fact it took almost an hour for me to get to the courthouse by 8am!
It turns out the time commitment in our county is not particularly onerous. The term served is 3 months, one day a week from 9-3 occasionally going later to 4 or 5. For this group it would have been every Tuesday January thru March. And you can occasionally arrange to miss a week.
A second grand jury group was being summoned the following day for the same time period and they would meet on a different day of the week. These time commitment details vary widely between counties in TX. I think for Bexar County it is for 2 months but meeting 2 days each week.
So this particular one would have worked out OK for me. The day of the week did not conflict with DH’s scheduled procedure and we tend to stay close to the Valley Jan thru Mar anyway.
But I was the very last in line - #58 so of course I wasn’t selected.
It was also kind of amusing because it was our (newly elected) District Attorney’s first week on the job, and his first grand jury selection. He had an experienced staff with him of course.
There was quite a bit of waiting around. But those of us not selected were dismissed by 10:30am. Not bad!
I was pretty worried about it over the holidays because I knew it could be a long commitment, and DH has a medical procedure scheduled early Feb and I was in the middle of getting estate taxes pulled together due this week, plus the county courthouse is pretty far away with major interstate construction going on. And we have only the one vehicle. I just had no idea what to expect.
In fact it took almost an hour for me to get to the courthouse by 8am!
It turns out the time commitment in our county is not particularly onerous. The term served is 3 months, one day a week from 9-3 occasionally going later to 4 or 5. For this group it would have been every Tuesday January thru March. And you can occasionally arrange to miss a week.
A second grand jury group was being summoned the following day for the same time period and they would meet on a different day of the week. These time commitment details vary widely between counties in TX. I think for Bexar County it is for 2 months but meeting 2 days each week.
So this particular one would have worked out OK for me. The day of the week did not conflict with DH’s scheduled procedure and we tend to stay close to the Valley Jan thru Mar anyway.
But I was the very last in line - #58 so of course I wasn’t selected.
It was also kind of amusing because it was our (newly elected) District Attorney’s first week on the job, and his first grand jury selection. He had an experienced staff with him of course.
There was quite a bit of waiting around. But those of us not selected were dismissed by 10:30am. Not bad!
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