Jury duty update
My post from last September about being summoned for jury duty always gets a few Google hits per day, so I thought I'd provide an update.
I was required to call in to the courthouse once in October on a designated morning to see if I needed to come in that afternoon. The recorded message told me that my jury pool wasn't needed, but that I'd get another letter in the mail during my three-month on-call period if they needed me to check in again. That never happened, so presumably my brush with legal excitement has passed me by. That is all.
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can not recall since I have not been called up in years, do they still require the "physically challenged" to use a side door to gain access to an elevator or a ramp to be able to gain acess to the court room or the interviewing room where they interview potiential jurors? and is it more or less difficult in a smaller town versus a larger city? (please correct me if i am not useing correct terminalogy) thanks!
I didn't have to physically go to the courthouse during this jury duty summons, so I don't know what the interviewing or courtroom accessibility is here. I do know that my county courthouse has a ramp access to the building itself and one bathroom (downstairs near the jail, an elevator ride away from the courtrooms) that was big enough for me to use with my scooter when I checked this all out a couple years ago when I got my first summons.
None of that means that being an active juror is accessible, especially if measures to isolate jurors on duty from others in the building is enforced. And my guess would be that the less populous a jurisdiction, the less likely it will be that everything is fully accessible.
I have jury duty next Tuesday. It will be my first time. The courthouse is supposedly accessible. We'll see.
also if one needs an assistant of some sort(example- nurse) would they be allowed into the court room along with you? or would they even allow an sight seeing dog? any clue?
This sounds like a topic crying out for some investigative reporting, doesn't it? Keep us posted, David.
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