Jury Service - Has it affected you

[Lucifer Box]

Surely by this stage she'd have already had a few days of hanging around waiting to be assigned to a case?

This ploy depends on knowing what the case is - no point in saying that at the outset as they could assign you to a long boring fraud case or something.

Exactly. She didn't mind doing jury service per se, but did not want to be on a long case so came up with the racist card when she was called to a big case. Six weeks or something I seem to recall.

[Alf W]

Surely all you need to do is wait until the accused gets marched in and then give them a big wave and a loud "Allright matey! How's it going? Fancy seeing you here" etc etc.

Either that or a loud comment to your fellow jurors along the lines of "hey, he looks guilty as sin eh eh?"

[Marina]

Surely all you need to do is wait until the accused gets marched in and then give them a big wave and a loud "Allright matey! How's it going? Fancy seeing you here" etc etc.

Either that or a loud comment to your fellow jurors along the lines of "hey, he looks guilty as sin eh eh?"

But if you're too blatant you could be clobbered for contempt of court - I think judges can dish out several-month prison sentences on the spot for that.

[TheFaQQer]

£300/day IIRC.

It's not bad - sometimes I quite fancy a cushy break away from work getting paid to read a book.

I really enjoyed it when I did it - shame the guy was found not guilty though, since I reckon he did it. He looked guilty anyway.

[Lucifer Box]

Either that or a loud comment to your fellow jurors along the lines of "hey, he looks guilty as sin eh eh?"

Best not, the judge might lock you up for contempt.

On the case I was on, one of jurors was late coming back for the afternoon session and the start time was delayed by 15 minutes or so. When we were all seated the judge asked why she had been late and she said she was very sorry but she had been to buy a coat but that the queue at the shop was long and she had to wait to pay.

The judge asked her if it was the coat she was wearing when she came in. She said it was and he told her it was a very nice coat. She thanked him and he asked her how much it had cost. She said £175 and he replied in that case the fine for wasting the court's time time is double that, £350. Can she please make arrangements to pay before she leaves the building this evening.

Cool as a cucumber he was.

[ChimpMaster]

Cool as a cucumber he was.

That is so cool. I feel like I must become like that.

[BrilloPad]

He looked guilty anyway.

You should have got yourself elected foreman - then coerced the other jurors.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Best not, the judge might lock you up for contempt.

On the case I was on, one of jurors was late coming back for the afternoon session and the start time was delayed by 15 minutes or so. When we were all seated the judge asked why she had been late and she said she was very sorry but she had been to buy a coat but that the queue at the shop was long and she had to wait to pay.

The judge asked her if it was the coat she was wearing when she came in. She said it was and he told her it was a very nice coat. She thanked him and he asked her how much it had cost. She said £175 and he replied in that case the fine for wasting the court's time time is double that, £350. Can she please make arrangements to pay before she leaves the building this evening.

Cool as a cucumber he was.

Whilst it is inappropriate for the that woman to have wasted everyone's time, it is a shame that the same standards aren't applied when judges and lawyers can't be bothered - they can just ask for an adjournment and off they go!

[bogeyman]

Jury Service - Has it affected you

Yes! I should say it's affected me!

I was up on a charge a couple of years ago, and because of this so-called bloody Jury Service, a mob of people who I'd never even seen before showed up in the court and convicted me!

18 months for squirrel fondling, but let out after 14 for good behaviour.

Bloody Jury Service - do away with it I say!

[moorfield]

Just pop your summons back in the post with "Return to Sender - No longer at this address" on it.

Worked for me.