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I have got a notice for jury duty 3 times in the last 10 years. I swear they watch for the earliest time they can send me a notice and do it the first day they are able. Thankfully, I have never had to answer a question:

The first time I got a notice was for town court (which REALLY sucks because you don't get any time off of work for it unless you work a night shift since they usually start at 7PM). I actually had to go down to the court house because they don't have a "number", they just mail notices out to 50 people and pick jurors out of the pool. Thankfully both cases they were selecting for got settled while we were there, so it was just half an hour of my night wasted. The funny thing is the judge was trying to make everyone feel better by saying "well, at least you didn't have to go downtown for county court!" despite the fact I worked right across the street from the county court house, and it would have been WAY more convenient for me...

The second time was for county court, but my juror number was like 750, so I never got called in.

The third time was for district court, which is like one step below Grand Jury in the "This is just going to consume your life for a while so deal with it" spectrum. Basically they put you "on-call" for the next 6 months and can send you up to 5 notices for cases. They sent me like 2 notices, but I never had to go in for questioning on any of them because they all got settled before jury selection.

Come to think of it, that last one was a year and a half ago, so I am probably about due in a year or two...

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