If you're looking to avoid jury duty, that's easy. Show up (if you're even called in), and be yourself... wear your "go out & impress people" clothes, and ask troublesome questions like, "which god am I supposed to be swearing by?"
Of course, you can ask for a postponement for this so it won't eat up an actual work day. But I assure you, people with strongly visible "alt" opinions of any sort get tossed out of juries... one lawyer or the other *really* won't want to deal with you. (Claiming you are solidly for/against any particular punishment will also do this... saying "I don't think I could convict someone of _____; I just don't think that's wrong" will also do it.)
wow, that is a really really awesome question to ask. unfortunately, I don't think they make jurors swear, just witnesses (at least they didn't back in MA the one time I was actually called into a jury box).
Hit post too soon. Showing up in a Fija t-shirt (available here; sorry, no pics) should also get you thrown out... and handing out Fija cards to the other jurors would probably wreak havoc in the courtroom. (Might get you arrested for contempt, though. Gotta be careful about that.)
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Date: 2004-04-16 03:32 pm (UTC)Of course, you can ask for a postponement for this so it won't eat up an actual work day. But I assure you, people with strongly visible "alt" opinions of any sort get tossed out of juries... one lawyer or the other *really* won't want to deal with you. (Claiming you are solidly for/against any particular punishment will also do this... saying "I don't think I could convict someone of _____; I just don't think that's wrong" will also do it.)
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Date: 2004-04-16 03:51 pm (UTC)wow, that is a really really awesome question to ask. unfortunately, I don't think they make jurors swear, just witnesses (at least they didn't back in MA the one time I was actually called into a jury box).
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Date: 2004-04-16 03:36 pm (UTC)