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Honeycombe8

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11. Ah. Well, they probably also sent her the procedure and form....

Sun May 5, 2013, 09:05 AM

May 2013

to ask for a hardship exception to be excused from the GJ. There is always a procedure for that. Maybe she missed that. But that's how you ask to be excused.

The fact that you don't do that, but later verbally ask the clerk...well, you know how it is if you don't follow procedures.

They probably also sent her a questionnaire to answer...she could've put some weird answers on there that would have excluded her...something that would be a flag that she could not be impartial.

Unfortunately...she basically told them she'd be an excellent jury member, with no partiality, and that it would not be a hardship! Hard to backtrack from that.

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UPDATE: Wife with Federal Grand Jury duty/Job issues. [View all] diabeticman May 2013 OP

Good luck. That is so fucking unfair. MotherPetrie May 2013 #1

Thanks for the update, diabeticman. femmocrat May 2013 #2

It isn't that type of Grand jury. She isn't hearing one case but the process before a trial. diabeticman May 2013 #5

Did she sit on a large panel from which attorneys selected the ones to be on the jury? Honeycombe8 May 2013 #3

It wasn't in front of lawyers. This is the Grand Jury that basically decides IF the Federal diabeticman May 2013 #4

Ah. Well, they probably also sent her the procedure and form.... Honeycombe8 May 2013 #11

They didn't ask much the only questionaire came about a year before the panel was called diabeticman May 2013 #12

Take the Jury on a trip. Downwinder May 2013 #6

My wife could never do that purposely however she is find the way some of the federal diabeticman May 2013 #7

Sometimes I wish I had my rose-colored glasses back... pacalo May 2013 #10

If she has to find a new job, then serving is a hardship CreekDog May 2013 #8

She's spoken to two other jurors one has a similar job to my wife and she is given a hard diabeticman May 2013 #9