Do non-US citizens/non-US residents have to do US jury duty?

[KrazyHorse]

I hope not.

I don't want to ****ing deal with convicting some 19 year-old for possession with intent or whatever.

[Az]

umm, don't convict him, then?

[KrazyHorse]

"He" is just hypothetical right now.

I got notice of jury duty by mail about 5 minutes ago.

[KrazyHorse]

The second question on the form is "are you a US citizen", so I'm hoping that means that I mail this in and that's the end of it.

They don't tell you **** on the form though.

[Vesayen]

They can't possibly let aliens... even legal resident aliens sit on juries...... if they do... ugh-I need to go found my own nation.

[KrazyHorse]

Legal nonresident alien

[KrazyHorse]

F1 = student visa = nonresident, nonimmigrant visa

[lord of the mark]

only canadians are allowed on juries, and only in Maryland.

They will put you on a case of some inner city cop killer. If he is convicted his gang will come after you. If he is acquited the cops will come after you.

[Japher]

When I went jury duty apparently not even American's need to be placed on juries if you can successfully pretend that you can't speak english.

I was amazed at the number of ppl (asians mostly) who would claim they couldn't speak english yet ran a buisness and were either born in California or have lived here for over 15 years. Nothing the judge could do about it, but he would chastise them to a point that I thought was bordering on racism.

[KrazyHorse]

Eh. I wouldn't be scared at all to serve on such a case. The number of jurors who get murdered by the defendant is miniscule. Just living in Baltimore is a lot more dangerous than that. 1 murder within 40 feet of my doorstep in 2 years, 3 within 200 metres.

The major thing is the hassle, followed closely by the fact that I'd probably end up having to convict some kid of a drug offense, for which the punishment in the US is absolutely draconian.

[DanS]

We require only Canadians to sit on our juries. Americans have better things to do.

[KrazyHorse]

Be careful. If you put enough of us on juries then we'll start to hand out the death penalty for traffic tickets, just to thin you guys out.

[KrazyHorse]

I've said too much.

Enjoy your last year of sovereignty, by the way.

[Kontiki]

Can't you just ignore it?

[KrazyHorse]

Uh...I could, but I'm a lot more on my toes down here about jumping through every hoop so that some idiotic INS bureaucrat doesn't decide to cut my education short...