Ack!

[badseed1980]

So I got summoned to jury duty. Bleah.

I will go. I don't have a problem doing it. But they summoned me to feckin' Chelsea. I don't have a car, so I'd have to:
1) Take the Green Line to North Station
2) Take the Commuter Rail to Chelsea
3) Walk over half a mile to the Courthouse
All to get there by 8:30AM.

Fuck that.

I am going to see if I can get a hardship transfer. One of my options in that case is Downtown. That would be perfect: if I didn't end up having to serve, I could just go right to work--I work only a few blocks away. I usually have to be downtown by 8:30 anyway.

Does anyone know if the transportation issue is likely to be enough to get me transfered to Downtown? I've never done this before.

Comments

[leenah.livejournal.com]

transportation can get you transferred. i've done it before.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

GROOVY!

Thanks a mil. :)

[autumnsshadow.livejournal.com]

yes, transportation issues are valid. or you can do what i do and move every 1 to 2 years and then when they send you a notice it's usually for your old address...then you just say you don't live there any more. it works especially well if you move from one county to another. =)

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

I was empanelled on a jury a few years ago. It was interesting. It was a "slip and fall and sue my neighbor" sort of thing.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a blast...

I may get a few laughs out of it anyway. I'm hoping I do get asked to serve on a jury, and that it only lasts one day. That way I get the whole day out of work and don't get called up again for three years at least.

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

I gather that most trials are 3 days. The one I was on lasted 3 days (and they were able to accurately predict this at the beginning).

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Ick.

But three days out of work might not be too bad, actually...

now if it was goign to be really silly...

[erik-j-meyer.livejournal.com]

you would end up on the same jury as whiteboy. heck, that would be sit com level of silliness tho. oh well. amusing to think about all the same.

Re: now if it was goign to be really silly...

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Hehehe...that WOULD be silly.

Jury Duty

[p-firesinger.livejournal.com]

While Elissa just barely escaped recently without serving (didn't have enough court cases) I had to serve on my last go around. I was chosen for a case where the person had hit a deer at 60, their airbag deployed, and they were injured. No permanent damage. No scratched cornea as they claimed. Their own expert on the medical side refuted their claims. The industry expert basically gave the specs of what should make the airbag deploy. She had no case. She waited ten YEARS to bring this to a jury and she had no case. They settled several days into the case.

I learned all about airbags and taught some other jurors some basic physics (kinetic energy: deer hitting car at 60mph exceeds threshold of car hitting wall at 10mph.) It was fun and work still paid me as if I was still there.