One of the eight billion pieces of mail I recieved while I was gone was a Juror Summons for Los Angeles County, except the date passed, so I had to reschedule.
They gave me a choice of next week or sometime in November, so basically my choice was: next week. So, woo Jury Duty.
Any advice on how not to get picked? I was thinking of going to find an “I (heart) (marijuana leaf)” shirt down at the boardwalk this afternoon…
Silly: Sit there rocking back and forth and laughing to yourself the whole time.
Less silly: Tell them you’ve read the work of psychologist Elizabeth Loftus (UC Irvine) who has shown that false memories can easily be created and you can’t possibly believe any eye-witness testimony (this is what one of my professors does).
Alternative: Do jury duty. Hey, you’ll get paid 40 cents an hour, and it’s not like you have anything else to do for the next few weeks…
i recommend getting a shirt that says “i’d rather be fighting the man”…but i’m biased b/c i actually have such a shirt. so does troy.
http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=341
Heh, my mom’s advice was to dress really preppy and bring a book about law. It’s a way of sort of screaming “I am a jury of nobody’s peers.”
And I love the spectacularly tasteless T-Shirt Hell. If I’d be wearing one of their shirts to get out of jury duty, it’d surely be this one: http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=323