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

[KrazyHorse]

I have a Maryland driver's license.

[Agathon]

But what if I want to run for public office some day?

Then I hope you have to do jury duty and get gang-raped by the defendant's mates.

Politicians are scum.

[Flubber]

Jury duty is very very easy to avoid. Merely make a statement like " I think that if the police charged them , they must be guilty"

That should get you off the jury pretty quick. Make it a pro-defense statement if you like. If its a civil trial, just say taht you think that most plaitiffs are whiners and you're sick of people suing each other.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Flubber
Jury duty is very very easy to avoid. Merely make a statement like " I think that if the police charged them , they must be guilty"

Yeah, but I think KH wants to avoid voir dire as well. Depending on the area, one would still have devote several entire days to hanging around a courthouse waiting.

When I was called for jury duty in NYC, I spent three days at the courthouse downtown in a large room with 100+ other people. Maybe once an hour, if that, the court official came in with a bingo-style rotating thing with the names of all the potential jurors. They would pick some out for voir dire, and the rest just had to keep sitting and waiting. I was never even called for voire dire, just sat in that damned room reading a book and watching the TV.

[Dauphin]

It may be that educated people tend not to get picked, cos stupid people are easier to manipulate (plus only wasters with nothing to do can afford the time to sit on longer trials).

Show them how smart you are and they'll pass you by.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
When I was called for jury duty in NYC, I spent three days at the courthouse downtown in a large room with 100+ other people. Maybe once an hour, if that, the court official came in with a bingo-style rotating thing with the names of all the potential jurors. They would pick some out for voir dire, and the rest just had to keep sitting and waiting. I was never even called for voire dire, just sat in that damned room reading a book and watching the TV.

I don't get why people want to avoid jury duty. You get to sit around.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
I don't get why people want to avoid jury duty. You get to sit around.

If I were sitting around with decent entertainment, fine. But if you get on a jury, you have to spend hours a day for possibly weeks listening to lawyers talk. You've seen Imran's posts...would you want to endure that?

[Immortal Wombat]

"reading a book"

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
"reading a book"

Can't do that if you're actually on a jury...

[Timexwatch]

Originally posted by Japher

Balitmore is a chocolate city with a white, creamy outside. So there's a good chance he is.

[:) Smiley]

If you're not a citizen you just check that box and you won't have to serve jury duty.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov

You've seen Imran's posts...would you want to endure that?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I have a Maryland driver's license.

Motor voter annoys again.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat

I don't get why people want to avoid jury duty. You get to sit around.

I'd rather sit around at work and get paid than sit around at the courthouse and not get paid.

[notyoueither]

Write back to the clerks that you are an eskimo and look forward to eating the heads of the guilty, and of course check the box that says you are not a US citizen.

Then tell us about any strange vehicles parked on your street, and odd clicks while you are talking on the phone.