Jury summons proves to be 'trying' experience
Students: If you receive a jury
summons and think you can be
excused on the grounds of stu
dent status, you’ve got another
thing coming.
The dreaded summons I
received from Lane County
District Court caused no
headaches until my first peti
tion on those grounds im
mediately was denied. This was
something new. as I had been
excused because of school twice
before. What to do next required
some thinking.
A phone call to the jury clerk,
whose name was Lucy
Reporter’s notebook
by Dennis Fernandes
Michaud, informed me that
students were no longer exempt
from this duty to society.
Things were getting difficult.
I could double the strength of
my argument by telling the
truth — that I had a full-time job
in addition to school. Or I could
take the easy way out and lie.
Say I had moved out of the area
or something.
My conscience got the best of
me, maybe because of the prox
imity of election day, and I
decided to at least fulfill my
duties to democracy by telling
the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. Certainly
the judge would understand the
situation.
1 called the jury clerk again
and explained the situation.
She seemed to think my
chances were good if my
employer wrote a note.
Fat chance.
Rejected once again, I became
both furious and frantic. If 1 got
called the day of a midterm, or
had an important assignment at
work. . .1 also wanted to take a
four-day weekend this month.
The bottom line was that I
was to report for juror orienta
tion the following Monday. A
third phone call to my least
favorite jury clerk produced an
argument and a suggestion:
Come to the orientation to per
socially plead my case to a
judge. Have more specific
evidence, such as work hours
and the need to work for finan
cial reasons, she said.
She was accustomed to this
dilemma, as 1 later learned. Out
of 4B5 selections per month for
the District Court (Circuit Court
follows the same procedures).
Michaud said, an estimated til)
percent apply for deferral or
excusal.
Still not wanting to have
anything to do with the matter. I
reluctantly agreed. I went to my
employer for yet another “Dear
)udge" note, which brought
hack memories of Mom's
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