USC husband out of country needs excuse from jury duty!

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mila2006

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Hi, my US citizen husband is current out of the country, and will not return till summer, time and money not favor coming back especially just for jury duty, can you please suggest how to fill out the jury summon form to be excused from jury duty?

I noticed B 12 "I have no reasonable means of transportation to the court location that has summoned me"? then D explain why? should i use this?

Think further, if we were to live outside US for a couple of years, can we NOT have a permanent address in US (if not then what address is
going to be on our driver license)? if we do have a permanent address in US, we definitely will receive jury duty in mail (suppose we have friends receiving mail for us), if we don't respond we will get arrested?

thanks in advance!
 
mila2006 said:
Hi, my US citizen husband is current out of the country, and will not return till summer, time and money not favor coming back especially just for jury duty, can you please suggest how to fill out the jury summon form to be excused from jury duty?
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Use the option you suggested, and explain that he is out of the country until next summer.

if we do have a permanent address in US, we definitely will receive jury duty in mail (suppose we have friends receiving mail for us), if we don't respond we will get arrested?
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You worry too much.
 
mila2006 said:
so, you mean it is okay to not respond to jury summon letters? just curious...
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No, respond and say that your husband is not in the country. I received one a couple of years ago (even though I'm still not a citizen) and I was overseas. My brother called them up and said I wasn't in the country and they said OK, we'll take his name off the list then.
 
mila2006 said:
so, you mean it is okay to not respond to jury summon letters? just curious...
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Personally, I wouldn't encourage anyone to ignore jury duty summonses, but I've been receiving them since I turned 18 and always threw them in the trash. Granted, the last one I received was before I became a citizen, but no one came knocking on my door to arrest me. I know a few other people (natural-born citizens, in fact) who never respond to jury summonses. No one tried arresting them either.
 
Vorpal said:
Personally, I wouldn't encourage anyone to ignore jury duty summonses, but I've been receiving them since I turned 18 and always threw them in the trash. Granted, the last one I received was before I became a citizen, but no one came knocking on my door to arrest me. I know a few other people (natural-born citizens, in fact) who never respond to jury summonses. No one tried arresting them either.
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They used to send me jury duty summons and then threaten with me with an arrest if I don't show up. I kept telling them - in e-mail and telephone conversations - that I am not a citizen, thus, not eligible to serve as a juror. They just wouldn't stop. Then I sent them a certified letter asking them to stop or I was going to sue them for harassment. Haven't received anything since.
 
Mr Vertigo said:
They used to send me jury duty summons and then threaten with me with an arrest if I don't show up. I kept telling them - in e-mail and telephone conversations - that I am not a citizen, thus, not eligible to serve as a juror. They just wouldn't stop. Then I sent them a certified letter asking them to stop or I was going to sue them for harassment. Haven't received anything since.
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I never bothered contacting them at all. I think I may actually go next time they contact me. As I've mentioned earlier, I know several natural-born citizens who never respond to jury summonses. They never suffered any consequences as a result of this. In fact, I've never heard of anyone getting arrested in NY for not responding to jury summonses. However, we now have a rather extremist governor (due to the fact that Eliot Spitzer couldn't keep his d--k in his pants), so who knows what will happen.
 
Hmm, ok - that's been a subject I am worried about as well.
I got a summon years ago when I wasn't a citizen and that wasn't a problem.
Today, I would not feel comfortable based on english skills in a court.

It is just the vocabulary I am not familiar with. I couldn't in good concious convict someone because of that. Good enough reason?
 
I agree on that. But if I was asked (at selection etc) I would simply state that I wouldn't convict anyone because of that problem.

I am very serious about that, in the sense that I do not think I could follow the process as adequately as needed.
 
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