Nor do leftist credentials or publications have to be a disqualification. My old physics prof in grad school, a radical leftist who coauthored a book damning US nuclear policy from a Marxist point of view and who was a well-known outspoken local advocate of left wing positions in a small community -- Ann Arbor -- served on a jury once.
Please don't try to get out of jury duty. It's fun and it is good for you and for the legal system to have People Like Us participate.
--- "Steven L. Robinson" <srobin21 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Probably criminal. If it were civil, the jury
> consultant would have spotted Doug right away and he
> would have been bounced on a peremptory.. One
> doesn't usually see jury consultants in criminal
> cases.
> BTW- The easiest way to get off of jury duty is
> wear a FIJA ["Fully Informed Jury Association"]
> button to the first day of jury duty.... SR
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
>
> > You didn't get tossed for being a "known leftist
> radical"?
> > I assume civil rather than criminal? Anything
> interesting?
> > I've never served myself. I always get eliminated.
> I'd like to do it at least
> > once but I doubt that will happen.
> >
> > John Thornton
> >
> >
> > On 16 May 2006 at 18:10, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > > I'm on jury duty this week. Got selected, trial
> begins tomorrow. So I
> > > may be a little inattentive until it's all over.
>
> > >
> > > Doug
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