Jury Duty

[Drince88]

I was summoned once when I'd lived in Washington for 10 or 11 months. At the time, you had to be a resident of the county for a year to serve (the law changed and would have allowed me to serve 10 days earlier)

I was also summoned shortly before I moved from Oregon the last time, but would have been the day or two before I went on a scheduled vacation, so I asked to postpone it. By the time I got called back, I'd moved her to Louisiana.

I haven't been summoned yet here in Louisiana. I do get paid for it (I think they've given up on collecting the $ here, too - though I don't know how much they pay in my Parish), and would generally be willing to serve - but I would SOOO much rather be on a civil case than a criminal one. I had an aunt killed by her boyfriend years ago, and always figured I'd use that as my 'card' to get out of an icky criminal case. It's been over 16 years now, though (yikes, it doesn't seem that long) so I don't know how well that would fly - AND around here, I'm not really anxious to throw a wrench in any part of the criminal just system.