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Post by donna on Jul 31, 2014 21:55:47 GMT
I just called in and I have to report for day 1 tomorrow. I am hoping tomorrow will be the only day I have to go.
I now need to pick out a dead tree book to take with me since I can't take my Kindle into the courthouse.
Please keep praying that I do not get chosen!
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Post by mom2jnk on Jul 31, 2014 22:07:14 GMT
I now need to pick out a dead tree book to take with me since I can't take my Kindle into the courthouse. A "dead tree book!" Love it! It just about killed me to sit around all week long waiting in the jury room to be called for jury duty without my Kindle. How many word search puzzles can one person be expected to complete in one week without going stark raving mad?? LOL. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 31, 2014 22:51:47 GMT
I hope it goes your way.
And RE: Dead tree book - I literally had to stop and think for a minute, "I've never heard of that series before...." before I "got" it. LOL
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Post by CeeScraps on Jul 31, 2014 22:56:55 GMT
Gosh, I just got off jury duty. I was lucky! We could take laptops, iPads, cells and use them in the jury room. Once we were called, then all electronics had to be turned off. I got a lot of work done! I'm sorry....I too can't imagine sitting there with a dead tree book to read at!  |
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Post by donna on Jul 31, 2014 23:03:20 GMT
I don't have many left because I just went through and donated 12 book boxes of books. One of the many reasons I use a Kindle is that I need the print bigger now. The eyesight went downhill fast after 40!
On the Kindle forums, they refer to traditional books as DTBs.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 23:06:51 GMT
I was called for a Craig's List murder case a few years ago in Michigan. We could not take any electronics, including cellphones, into the courthouse building. If you had a cellphone you had to give it to the guards at the entrance of the building. Books were allowed but they made you empty your purse, pockets, any place that you could have any kind of electronics. A guard stood in the jury pool room and whoa betide anyone who had a newspaper.
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Post by smartypants71 on Jul 31, 2014 23:06:55 GMT
That stinks that you can't bring your Kindle. I've only been to jury duty once, and those were allowed. You need to move  |
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Post by donna on Jul 31, 2014 23:16:47 GMT
Yeah, I can't take my cellphone either. I am going to have to lock it in my car because I have to drive over an hour to get to this courthouse. Some of the drive is one some pretty isolated interstate. I am going to put it in an insulated lunch bag so that it will hopefully not get too hot. Tomorrow is supposed to be less hot than normal for August.
The courthouse is in Florence, SC. If you have ever been to Myrtle Beach you have probably been in this area of the state.
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Post by meridon on Aug 1, 2014 1:07:00 GMT
Go to the public library and get William Follett's The Pillars of the Earth. It should last you a while!  Do you do Sudoku? If not, might be time to start! Hope the time goes quickly and that you're not chosen! |
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Post by Debbie on Aug 1, 2014 1:59:42 GMT
No kindle, iphone or ipad? I would lose my mind for sure.
Good luck!
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Post by Gravity on Aug 1, 2014 2:13:10 GMT
I had to report for jury duty today too. I was assigned to a court and have to report back on Monday for jury selection.
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Post by Toni Alexis on Aug 1, 2014 2:16:09 GMT
That's a bummer about your kindle. I was just on jury duty earlier this month and I was free to bring any electronics. They just had to be silenced if we made it into a courtroom.
I love jury duty. I get to see friends and they laugh when they see me there. Being a detectives wife, I know some prosecutors and I'm an automatic NOPE.
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Post by bluepoprocks on Aug 1, 2014 2:22:28 GMT
I hope you get out of it or if you get picked it's a short trial. I always send a letter saying missing work would be to much of a financial hardship for me to be on a jury and they let me out of it. It's true it would be a hardship I'm not making it up just to get out of jury duty. If I was retired or didn't have to work I wouldn't mind jury duty.
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Aug 1, 2014 15:07:27 GMT
I go for jury duty on the 11th, but they do have wifi. On of my Co workers had federal jury duty and it was like yours. No phones, no nothing.
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Post by perumbula on Aug 1, 2014 15:36:58 GMT
I had to report for Jury Duty a couple of weeks ago. We were allowed our electronics, but I ended up not needing my Kindle at all. They did the questions to everyone as a group so you had to listen the whole time. (basically they would read the question and if you were a yes, you raised your hand. then they asked for clarification.) I wasn't picked as the original jury pool, but those of us who weren't still had to listen because we never knew when someone would be released and our number might be drawn and we'd be added to the jury pool. It was an interesting experience, but more stressful because of the timing. I don't have a lot of time to spend at the courthouse this summer.
(Frankly, I'm supposed to be doing something else right this second. I suppose I should get to it, huh?)
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Post by ~Susan~ on Aug 1, 2014 17:16:46 GMT
I was called up several weeks ago, but I lucked out and they didn't need me. I hope the same happens to you. Maybe you should check out War and Peace to take with you  |
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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 1, 2014 17:53:31 GMT
Yuck, I have been called up the week after we get back from vacation. I am praying they do not need me. I get paid through work if I have to serve but that is the week before school starts and it is NOT a good time for me to have to go. I could do a day, maybe 2 but anymore than that and I will have to find a way to get out of it. I haven't been called in over 19 years.
My dh was called up two years ago. He completely forgot about it. Luckily, he wasn't called in. In June he was called again, did call in but again, wasn't needed.
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Post by Dani-Mani on Aug 1, 2014 18:50:24 GMT
I was on a civil case for two weeks; it sucked!
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Post by mom2jnk on Aug 1, 2014 19:13:42 GMT
Here in Illinois, no cell phones, no laptops, no iPads, no iPods, no e-readers are allowed during jury duty. NOTHING electronic can even enter the courthouse unless you are an attorney or law enforcement. It was explained to us at the jury meeting that it was to ensure that no cameras would be used in the courthouse to protect the security of all parties involved.
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Post by Gravity on Aug 2, 2014 3:02:00 GMT
I hope you get out of it or if you get picked it's a short trial. I always send a letter saying missing work would be to much of a financial hardship for me to be on a jury and they let me out of it. It's true it would be a hardship I'm not making it up just to get out of jury duty. If I was retired or didn't have to work I wouldn't mind jury duty. In my state, financial hardship will not get you out of jury duty. Jury pay is only $6 for the first day, then $40 per day for additional days. I really feel for those whose employer will not pay them while serving on a jury. |
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Do you do Sudoku? If not, might be time to start! Hope the time goes quickly and that you're not chosen!
