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At least four or five times, yes. I absolutely love serving on jury duty, such to the point that I wish I could do it more often. Now being retired, I’m considering putting in for the Grand Jury.
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I’ve been through that also; I’ve been summoned ten or twelve times in all, selected to serve four times, and selected as an alternate juror once but by closing arguments I was not needed so I was dismissed as the deliberations began. Of the four trials where I was a juror, one was dismissed before testimony began due to the defendant deciding to plead guilty, another was dismissed after two days for legal reasons that the judge said were private and confidential.
In Southern California (maybe throughout the entire state, I’m not sure), there was such a system for prospective jurors to call the registrar daily to see if they should report the next morning.
However, it was replaced several years ago by a “one-day-or-one-trial” rule. Once summoned, prospective jurors report Monday morning and remain in the jury pool all day waiting to see if they’ll be called to a courtroom. Those who are not called by the mid afternoon are dismissed to go home as having served a full day, and will not be summoned again for at least two years, if at all. Those who are called to a courtroom may or may not pass voir dire, but either way, do not have to return to the jury pool. Of the ones who are selected to sit on a jury serve for the entirety of the trial, normally three to five days.
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I am not the person who replied to your post.
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Too many years of constant and unrelenting exposure to the ugly underbelly of one incident after another of grammatical error crimes with no letup in sight.
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Thank you for the Asker’s Pick.
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Tyree, 57, who is acting as his own attorney, filed a legal brief that was heard by the Supreme Judicial Court on Sept. 3 in which he argued that another soldier who was at Fort Devens in Ayer, along with Tyree, was responsible for the murder of Army Pvt. Elaine Tyree.
Elaine Tyree was a 22-year-old mother of a 2-month old girl. She was attacked on Jan. 30, 1979, by a knife-wielding assailant who stabbed her 16 times and nearly decapitated her, slicing her throat in her Ayer home.
Her husband, Pvt. William Tyree Jr., a Green Beret with the Special Forces, was convicted in February 1980 of paying $5,000 to Pvt. Erik Y. Aarhus, a friend and fellow Green Beret, to kill his wife.
Tyree is currently housed in maximum security at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, serving a sentence of life in prison without parole.
This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at January 20, 2024 2:16 PM MST
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