Jury Duty

Just ended a case today after serving for a week. 

Auto accident case where the Plaintiff was looking for Medical Expenses and Pain & Injury compensation.  Could not understand why both sides could not reach a settlement.  Until we heard the closing arguments.  The sides were over $100K apart, not chump change.

So they gave it to us Jurors and we returned a decision that did not make the Plaintiff too happy.  Sorry, no big payday.

The Judge came into the Jury Room to thank us for our service and explained that over 95% of these cases never reach a Jury.  They are usually settled by agreement between the two parties.  Plaintiff decided to roll the dice and they came up snake-eyes.  

Not unlike gambling at all... You should never get greedy.

 Good job though. Least we know there are some brains out there that sit on a jury.

Jury Summons....right in the Trash 

There was evidence of a prior back injury.  So, yes, the auto accident did exacerbated the previous back injury.  The Plaintiff was looking to recoup a full payday and we Jury members just could not justifiably agree to a six-figure settlement.  To us, we all agreed, you'd better come to court in a wheelchair if you want a six-figure compensation.

You would be surprised.  There is still a lot of common sense in this country when six people get together and openly discuss their feelings.  The Jury system is never perfect but it has survived the test of time and remains the solid base to our common court of law.  I really feel that we the Jury nailed this case right on the button.  The Plaintiff got a realistic settlement and justice was served.

LOL.  There were 86 of us that started out in the Jury Pool and they told us that 44 people never even responded to the Jury Summons.

Thats crazy..

Not to long ago I would just have to write " I'm self employed , to busy, F-off ." then the law was changed and made very , very hard to get out of it. So my rule is , " if I don't see it I didn't get it " ....

I understand that I will receive a letter from the court exonerating me from Jury Duty Service for the next four years.  With my Rock-Style Partying life that may just do it for my Jury career.

my father worked in the criminal justice system, gets me out of it automatically 

Man. I loved being on the jury a few years back. It was a boring imminent domain case, but my company paid me for everyday and I think I got $40 a day from the courts. Free lunch. Got to sleep in. Sign me up. I want those things in the mail but of course they don't come anymore. 

Jurors that worked full-time received $50 a day plus travel distance pay.

I am retired and got $20 a day with zero travel compensation.

There was no "paid lunch".

Something is wrong here but I don't make any waves.

I need to fly under the radar for reasons I won't publicly recite.

Agreed. If you never got it you don't have to show.

I have sat on two. One a hooker case the other child neglect. After going back and having discussions with the other jurors on both cases makes me believe its a good system.  

I sat on traffic accident case too.  The plaintiff had no case whatsoever.  I think he just wanted to give his lawyer experience trying her first case.  

Dutch, you crack me up.....goes right in the trash, hahaha

In my area jury duty summons used to come registered but they stopped sending them that way a few years ago to save money.

No offense meant TheGoldenOne,,but there's an old joke that juries are made up of idiots,, because only an idiot can't figure out how to get out of jury duty..

WOW there are so many Patriots here : (