Jury Duty

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I have been summoned for jury duty, LJ! I have never been summoned before, and am sort of surprised that they managed to summon me for NYC, since I have very few official documents with my address here. I think it must be taxes; that's the only thing I do with the NYC government.

Anyway, though I am working on getting a letter from my employer which says I am way too valuable to waste on jury duty (heh, whatever), it seems likely that I will have to hang around and use those valuable skills to avoid being chosen. What is your advice? I have heard variously: dress really nicely, dress really sloppily, exaggerate stories of any crime which has happened to you, exaggerate your amount of higher learning. What do you say, LJ?

Comments

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Bring a good book. It is mostly waiting around.

I've heard various, but yeah,I think it mostly boils down to having had specific connections to cases; did you ever slip & fall, have you ever been robbed, or what have you.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*grins* I have a hard time going to the bodega on the corner without a book, so there's no chance of going to jury duty without one!