Jury Duty summons while abroad?

I'm actually really disappointed that I've still yet to receive a jury summons at all! I'm a weirdo that would have actually LIKED to sit on a jury!

I've done it in the US and the UK and loved every minute of it. Was just as good as watching crime dramas.

For the US trial the lawyers on both sides went at it hammer-and-tongs, riveting stuff.

For the two UK trials we found guilty in both cases, one was sentenced to three years and the other was sentenced to 11 years.

It was interested to see the differences between the two countries.

Ooo, yes, a guy I used to vanpool with in Florida was on a Grand Jury.  It was for a couple of years.  I don't remember how often he had to go - fortnightly or monthly for a day.  The commitment was long as they had to have a decent amount of training to be a grand jury.  He didn't have to miss too much work though.  THAT was very interesting!

This was only for two weeks, from after lunch until about 6pm if I remember correctly, and the only training we got was "if the evidence we've presented fits the definition of the crime we provided, indict." We indicted in nearly every case, although it was interesting to hear other people's reactions to the various cases. There was a wider variety of viewpoints regarding the police than I'd been exposed to before.

That said, if it hadn't been for the police shooting, it would've been pretty boring.

Fascinating process and I would be fine to sit on a jury again.  It's interesting, because your mind going into a case is very different afterwards with everything provided to you.

I'm wondering if I would be going into it with a different mindset, having listened to all these podcasts and watched all these documentaries, vs having barely little interest in "True Crime" type stuff. Would be interesting to see if that would be a negative or positive thing. Would I overanalyse things? Hmm...

Depending on the case, there may not be much to analyse, let alone overanalyse.  I suspect most cases are pretty boring. 

Hubby wasn't paid by his boss when he had the week at Jury duty, so he got the statutory pay. It wasn't much.   

I would love to be on jury!! I got called last year, but because I made my address my parents at home they sent it back saying I was abroad.

My dad used to work as a federal law enforcement agent, so my mom said any time she got called they pretty much automatically excluded her for conflict of interest. Though you'd think state jury would be different from federal, but I guess it's just a rule of thumb.


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I would love to be on jury!! I got called last year, but because I made my address my parents at home they sent it back saying I was abroad.

My dad used to work as a federal law enforcement agent, so my mom said any time she got called they pretty much automatically excluded her for conflict of interest. Though you'd think state jury would be different from federal, but I guess it's just a rule of thumb.


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They don't like people who mention law and ethics either. That's what got me out of jury duty the last time in the US.