08.17.99
Summons…!
Aug 17 Tue (11 PM)
Getting a letter from the Circuit Court of The State of Oregon is quick to send a shock through your body, drop your jaw a bit.
This morning when I got mine, my second thought was, “It’s not a supeona”, so I figured I was safe.
As it turns out, I was right. Here’s the first part of the letter itself:
“GREETINGS:
Your are hereby summoned to serve as a Juror in the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Multnomah County for a 2 day period begining on September 07, 1999.”
Looks like I get paid $10 a day to be in on this thing. Hmmm… I think I can squeeze in some hours at work, but if I get picked to be a a protracted trial or something, this could seriously hurt our income.
I’d like to take part, just for the experience, but they can’t possibly expect someone to become destitute in order to serve jury duty. Can they?
My friend Bo said that he got picked for Federal jury duty. I wonder how far he’ll have to travel. I’ll be able to take the bus down to the courthouse. They even included a one day free bus pass coupon in the summons.
I guess it was lucky that the URL http://nowscape.com/fija/fija_us.htm came up on Memepool the other day. It’s information for jurors. I’ll probably look around the net for more info as well.
Always a new adventure waiting around the corner. 🙂