Jury Duty, Hennepin County Style
May. 8th, 2006 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanUrk. I didn't get to sleep until my usual time, and got up at 6:45. I hope this is all spelled correctly.
Hennepin County keeps you for two weeks. If you are assigned to a trial and complete it within your term, they put you back in the jury pool. If you go through voir dire and are rejected for a trial, they put you back in the jury pool. If you are assigned to a trial and it is cancelled, they put you back in the jury pool.
There are some murky indications that second-week jurors may enjoy undisclosed privileges, but the Policy, the POLICY, is to keep people for two weeks.
They have done their best with the jury room. It's underground, which is unsettling, and it's right under Sixth Street and near the loading dock, so that it is shaken and vibrated and rattled from time to time. If I'd ever been in an earthquake, it would probably freak me out.
The chairs are fairly comfortable, and as long as you write your name on a whiteboard and erase it when you come back, you can go grab food or drink or use the bathroom whenever you like, except when the big red and blue video screen that says, "We are pulling a panel. Do not sign out," is up.
They tell you how many cases they have pending. Today the number went from 64 down to 1, and they sent the much-reduced population of the jury room home half an hour early.
I hope I get more sleep tomorrow. I don't think that I will escape a trial.
P.
Hennepin County keeps you for two weeks. If you are assigned to a trial and complete it within your term, they put you back in the jury pool. If you go through voir dire and are rejected for a trial, they put you back in the jury pool. If you are assigned to a trial and it is cancelled, they put you back in the jury pool.
There are some murky indications that second-week jurors may enjoy undisclosed privileges, but the Policy, the POLICY, is to keep people for two weeks.
They have done their best with the jury room. It's underground, which is unsettling, and it's right under Sixth Street and near the loading dock, so that it is shaken and vibrated and rattled from time to time. If I'd ever been in an earthquake, it would probably freak me out.
The chairs are fairly comfortable, and as long as you write your name on a whiteboard and erase it when you come back, you can go grab food or drink or use the bathroom whenever you like, except when the big red and blue video screen that says, "We are pulling a panel. Do not sign out," is up.
They tell you how many cases they have pending. Today the number went from 64 down to 1, and they sent the much-reduced population of the jury room home half an hour early.
I hope I get more sleep tomorrow. I don't think that I will escape a trial.
P.
