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The following is taken verbatim from text messages between my mother and myself.

Mum: Guess who got a jury summons from the state of Texas?
Me: Oh that sucks!
Mum: YOU DID.
Me: OH NO
Mum: Seriously, you are due to report to the courthouse in two weeks.
Mum: I will be so glad to see you!
Me: Funny. Can you send it to me?
Mum: Tell them you hate Amazon.com and they'll let you off.
Mum: It's like hating America
Me: I'm an anarchist and a commie!
Mum: That's my boy. When you got a letter from the Sheriff's office I thought you'd gotten a ticket
Mum: Eating cupcakes in a no-cupcake zone
Me: I'm a rebel without a fork.
Mum: I'll bring you cookies in jail.

THANKS MUM.

Fortunately, in Austin at least, you can exempt yourself from jury duty online, and they accept "I do not live in Texas" as a valid excuse.

Comments

[rednwhiterose.livejournal.com]

A college just recently got summoned for a grand jury. Apparently it's the same as a regular jury summons (at least in my state). She was not happy. It's a month long and she'll hear potential cases all day from 8-4, with an hour for lunch. She said the orientation was pretty intense and she's not looking forward to actually hearing cases, especially the ones involving kids.

[fiveforsilver]

A good friend of mine was on a grand jury a couple years ago. Over the course of the month, I watched him get more and more haggard and tired and sad. Apparently it was super stressful and upsetting and partway through one of the other jurors had some sort of nervous breakdown and had to be replaced by an alternate. What bothered him most were all the rape cases.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

You'd think, given the level of unemployment in this country, they'd pull exclusively from people who didn't already HAVE jobs...