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直言和慌大夫 其道不孤。
送交者: FVCK 2012年02月20日04:17:03 於 [五 味 齋] 發送悄悄話

直言和慌大夫Want to get out of jury duty,其道不孤。
Just remember. It's not a lie if you believe it。
突然發現月大律師痛斥直言和慌大夫Want to get out of jury duty是知識分子欺詐。我不太關心中文網的糾紛,更加關心經濟形勢,一段時間前讀市場觀察的時候偶然瀏覽過這篇文章。謠傳月大律師不是美國公民,對直言和慌大夫的義憤來得有點丈二金剛摸不到頭腦。不過既然有這義憤,更應該痛斥這個洋女人,不要被洋女人嚇到。

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。。。“There’s an old joke: Would you trust your fate to 12 people who couldn’t figure out how to get out of jury duty?
But even if you don’t have those types of excuses, you’re not welcome on a jury if you’re overly opinionated or biased. “If it’s the truth, say you can’t be fair and impartial,” said Marshall Isaacs, a New York-based litigator. “They can’t keep you then. It’s really that easy.

“The bottom line is if you really want to get off jury duty, you can,” ”。。。

 

http://articles.marketwatch.com/2011-05-09/finance/30683370_1_jury-duty-jury-notice-potential-jurors

Want to get out of jury duty? Here’s how
Jennifer Waters's Consumer Confidential
People go to great lengths to get out of jury duty but it’s really not that hard
May 09, 2011|Jennifer Waters, MarketWatch

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Looking for an excuse to get out of jury duty?

Try this one: Tell the judge you have tickets to one of Oprah Winfrey’s last tapings of her eponymous top-rated talk show that’s going off the air after 25 years. It worked for a Chicago-area woman late last month who was let off a 12-person jury for the corruption retrial of impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.


U.S. District Judge James Zagel considered rescheduling the trial around the so-called Oprah Juror’s four May 10 tickets, but conceded even “that seems a little over the top.”

The story underscores a societal dilemma: People go to great lengths to shirk jury duty. Most excuses are less creative: doctor’s order, child-care issues, work that can’t be missed, a planned once-in-a-lifetime vacation. But though judges aren’t insensitive to personal issues, they don’t always buy them.

“The knee-jerk reaction of everyone is ‘this is an inconvenience to me,’” said Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Popejoy, who presides in DuPage County, Ill. “Jury duty is an inconvenience. And we all have life reasons not to go. But if everyone who had an excuse got off, who would we be left with?”

It’s the law, and a privilege too
Nuisance or not, serving on a jury is, by law, a civic responsibility you must fulfill. Jurors are chosen at random through state databases of names, such as voter registration and driver’s licenses. Potential jurors fill out questionnaires and then face further scrutiny by judges and attorneys before selection to the jury in a process called voir dire.

You could face civil or even criminal penalties if you skip a notice to appear at jury duty or get caught lying to get out of it.

“Most people know that jury service is, in fact, a privilege and that a jury notice is a legal notice,” said David Bookstaver, spokesman for the Unified Court System of New York. “If you ignore it, there are real consequences.” Among them: arrest, jail time and/or hefty fines.

Jury duty has long had a bad rap because of notoriously inefficient court systems that would keep people waiting for hours or days before being told if they were on a jury. Jury duty also can be exhausting and pressure-packed, depending on the alleged crime and the ultimate punishment.

But it’s the wasted time and lost wages that prompt people to dream up ways to avoid jury duty. A popular one, for example, is to claim there is a language barrier. In New York, a court clerk became known for asking potential candidates if anyone didn’t speak English. When a number of hands rose, he would wonder how they understood what he was asking if they didn’t speak English and why they were reading local newspapers
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