I think its $12/hr compensation, and fuel only gets reimbursed if you gotta drive for more than an hour to show up. I got my letter on my desk, but its for an undetermined date in july

Canadian here. Got summoned a few years ago. I applied for excusal on account of my autism and lack of transport to get to the courthouse which was in another city.

I have diagnosis documents for proof if needed but they never asked me. My request was approved and I never had to go.

My doctor sent them a note suggesting an anxious autistic man with anxiety disorders who’s prone to panic attacks probably shouldn’t be a juror. They excused me.

I’ve been summoned as a juror twice in >20 years of eligibility. They have a number you call when the date comes to see if you actually have to appear or not; the first time, I didn’t have to go at all. The second time, I did have to appear; I sat in a waiting room with about 20 other people for an hour, then we were all told we could go home.

Overall, shitty experience.

I got a summons during Covid, first summons I ever got, and haven’t gotten one sense. I was in my mid 30s, I kind of wanted to go just to see it for myself at least once but I’m an organ transplant recipient and I felt it was too risky to be out and about during Covid so my transplant clinic wrote me an excuse not that it wasn’t medically appropriate for me to attend and I was excused.

I think you always go back into the pool regardless of the outcome of your summons.

I once got summoned while I was in the hospital being treated for Leukemia. They gave me an exemption and some get well wishes.

Ive been summoned a few times but only picked once for a single day trial. I showed up at 8am and drank shitty coffee and ate snacks while watching HGTV on a big screen in the jury room. About 2 or 3 hours later the judge came in to tell us that the defendent had taken a plea deal, so we could go home. I got a check for $12 some weeks later and don’t have to serve again for a year or two.

All in all not too bad, and my work paid me my full wage for the day for doing my civic duty.

The summons prior to that was for a grand jury, which I didnt realize at the time and also got the dates mixed up so I didnt actually show up. I really lucked out here because for the grand jury, you have to serve for two weeks straight. When I realized I had the days wrong I was able to call and get it sorted out which lead to the above summons in which I was called, but according to the law, I technically could have been thrown in jail over missing the summons.

I’m 47, I’ve been summoned twice, but never selected to actually serve.

I served on Grand Jury in NY state. 2 days a week for 8 weeks, listened to the evidence and decided if there was enough to charge/not charge. Really interesting experience.

Don’t try to get out of it. It’s the most power you will ever get as a single citizen in the US. You can make the difference in someone else’s life, and it may be a matter of life and death based on a law that you don’t even think should exist. If you ever have a trial by jury, you don’t want to be judged by a group of people who couldn’t think of a good-enough excuse to get out of it, you want smart people who will potentially put their foot in the door between you and unjust laws.

Read up on jury nullification. Try to get on a jury. Don’t tell them anything they don’t ask directly. Dress like anything but who they think they don’t want on their jury during the voir dire process.

I was summoned once, but no juries were selected that day. My younger brother was the foreperson of a grand jury.

I was summoned three times in a month, and then haven’t gotten another one since then. Normally the triple summons wouldn’t be possible, because each summons has an exemption for if you were recently summoned and got rejected during voir dire… But I was summoned first at the city level, then the county level, then the city level again. And the exemption didn’t apply at the city level.

Basically, the city summoned me. I showed up. And then the city went “oh actually, every single case we had scheduled today went to a plea bargain. So we’re not going to do voir dire, because we don’t have any cases. You can just go home.”

The next week, I had the county summon. I showed up, went through voir dire, and got rejected because I wasn’t afraid to talk. Fun fact, most of the time during voir dire, the people who get picked are the ones who just quietly sit there. Knowing more about you makes it more likely for one side or the other to reject you.

The third week, I got called back to the city court. Since we hadn’t done voir dire last time, the “if you were already summoned recently and got rejected” exemption didn’t apply. Because without voir dire, I was never actually rejected. So I had to go back to city court again, just to get rejected in voir dire.

I nearly missed rent that month. “But wait, your employer typically keeps paying you even when you’re at jury duty, right?” I was a freelancer at the time. And every single summons landed in the middle of a week-long gig. So I basically had to cancel those three gigs (for being forced to miss a single day), and didn’t work for almost three weeks. Which meant I was basically three weeks short on paychecks.

Not yet, but everyone I know that were summoned, total 3 instances, never actually served.

I’ve been summoned twice in the past 7 years and neither time did I actually even get to the point where they interview to decide if I would have been a juror.

First time I got summons was like a month after I moved to a different city for work and I let them know and they said okay you don’t need to come.

Second was like last year and I accepted the summons but then got a notification that I was no longer needed as the trial wouldn’t happen. I assume plea deal or something.

how much are you paid?

I don’t remember exactly, but I remember feeling insulted by the stipend because I spent more on parking in downtown Detroit and had no means of transportation into the city other than driving myself. I had such a hard time finding cheap parking spots within reasonable walking distance of the court.

My first summons was when I was 18 …I ditched it… paid the fine. Back the it was 80 bucks. The next time some 30 years later I went. It was in San Diego superior and there were hundreds of other people in a huge hall and they were calling names. I tried my best to be invisible but my name came up. Next thing I know is everyone in the nury thinks I’d make a good foreman… Despite my objections that’s what they wanted. Ended up being a slip and fall case for a lady in a restaurant. I fought like hell to get her more compensation and w eventually reached a compromise. I got her a better settlement and wow what a cool experience.