Posted on 01/17/2008 7:57:02 AM PST by real saxophonist
This is insane. If there is a problem with people not showing up after appropriate notice, arrest them.
Over the last dozen years, I have gotten 7 jury summons and served on one.
Something like that might give me chest pains.
Like everything else our government screws up this is typical. We could solve this problem easily. Go to the homes of those who didn’t show up after normal work hours and arrest them, book them and cause them great inconvenience, possibly fine and jail them for at least a few hours. Then you hold a news conference and get the word out to news agencies. Word would quickly get out that you had better show up when summoned.
Instead, what do they do? They detain law abiding citizens and cause them great inconvenience and ignore the skippers. And we wonder why fewer and fewer just don’t respect authority or our civil systems
Thanks. But have sympathy: I have to drive 45 minutes downtown Austin - Travis County, Ronnie Earles’ hood.
Rat Central.
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Jury Duty Scam
This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.
The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.
The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma , Illinois, and Colorado . This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on thei r web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
When they catch these creeps, I want to be on the jury. ;~))
People vote with their feet, and when they do, they’re seldom wrong. That’s why there is no more Mongomery Wards, and no more German Democratic Republic.
Of course the courthouse uses a jury ID number or your voter registration number . . . NOT your SSN.
The thieves are always on the job, aren't they?
They never rest. But then again, I doubt these con artists will get much sleep in the iron bar hotel where they are eventually going either. ;~))
The criminals think they're "too smart to get caught", but what they forget is that the cops and the prosecutors have investigated a heckuva lot more crimes than they have committed . ..
We just had a horrible murder here, two police officers gunned down from ambush. It was a drug gang, and they were congratulating themselves on having gotten away with it.
Til one guy's girlfriend turned him in for the $20K reward, or so I have heard. Now he and his two buddies are in jail and they're looking for No. 4. They may well ride the needle for this one.
AMEN!
I’ve been called three times, dismissed once, struck twice (once civil, once criminal). If I ever get called again, I’m going to fill out the section about “why I shouldn’t have to serve” with the details - if they still want me after that, of course I’ll go. But I’m not interested in spending the morning at the courthouse just to be told that I can’t render a fair verdict.
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