Posted on 02/22/2018 10:51:12 AM PST by nickcarraway
One Pennsylvania resident has been called to perform his civic duty a few years earlier than expected.
“I got summoned to jury duty,” Luke says, with an unmistakable curiosity. “I’m only 11, so I didn’t think I’d ever get it.”
Luke was ordered to show up at the Chester County Courthouse on March 28 for jury selection.
Luke’s mom, Jeanette Fox, went online and later called the county to alert them about the error.
The summons came with two pages of instructions and dress code recommendations, in addition to instructions that he bring a magazine to read — and even where to park his car, if he had one.
Luke wanted to serve as he thought a juror’s work sounded interesting. Plus, he’d be off from school.
“They sit during the court case and listen to both sides of the story and they go into the back room, discuss it and take a vote on if the person is guilty or not,” he reasoned.
A Chester County spokeswoman said nobody was available for an interview but told Eyewitness, if minors receive a summons, they should check off the box requesting an exemption.
On the page of disqualifications, there actually isn’t a check box for a minor, only for “student” or “hardship.”
The error was eventually fixed, but Fox says her son was excited to go.
“I think he would’ve done a great job,” she said. “I would have worried more about the content he was hearing.”
Late Tuesday afternoon, Chester County sent Eyewitness News an explanation, saying the issue began with a state-provided list that included names of minors.
Sources in other Pennsylvania county governments say such lists are drawn from drivers licenses and voter databases, so it’s unclear how any of this happened.
When he sweats his oath in court, will he only hold up 3 fingers?
I would have loved this when I was 11!
Did he report?
Sheesh, my fingers are losing their minds...
No worries!!
No Philly jury will want him. He’ll be ex sponged because of the “morally straight” clause of the BS motto
He should investigate. It might be identity theft.
At age 11, he knows more about the duties of a jury than most people who end up on juries.
Try using only three...
He’d probably be more capable than many of the schleps I have seen at the courthouse.
Is he registered to vote? If so, did he vote for Hillary in 2016? Did he know he was voting Democrat?
Apparently your pinky was offended at being excluded?
Stupid government. That summons was meant to go to his dog.
Senior or Junior ,my father and brother get this mix up all the time ,LOL
“He’d probably be more capable than many of the schleps I have seen at the courthouse.”
My thoughts too.
Same here. And I definitely would have reported to the courthouse!
I didn’t realize that you could bow out of jury duty when you’re OVER a certain age.
It sounds like Luke has a good mother. She was attentive, but did not seem ‘horrified’ at the notion of him being summoned.
Mistakes do happen. Luke was probably ready to go while in Boy Scout uniform. Not sure if that (wearing of the uniform) would be allowed, though.
We need this kid. He would have had no trouble convicting Michael Jackson and OJ.
These county row offices employ drunks and incompetents who would not be able to hold down a job anyplace else in America. Everyone is Ward Chairman So-And-So’s brother-in-law.
Every few years our local county’s election department will get some bad press because they sent a voters registration card to a dog.
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