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<Old_Timer> wrote in message
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> On 9 Aug 2002 14:19:16 -0700, deja_bhoot2000@yahoo.com (Bhoot Nath)
> wrote:
>
> >I live in the southern most part of Alameda County in the SF Bay Area,
and
> >today I received a Jury Summons for jury duty in OAKLAND.
> >
> >Here are the problems:
> >
> >1. My wife and I have an infant, and we have only 1 car. Wife commutes to
> >the silicon valley. I bike to my job in the same town we live in. No
local
> >bus service. The only way to go got jury duty will be to (a) take a cab;
or
> >(b) a cab to Bart, and Bart to Oakland, and then walk to courthouse.
> >
> >2. I am a so called exempt employee at work (i.e., no overtime etc).
> >While employer will give time off for Jury Duty, when I get back, I would
> >have to finish all the accumulated work (plus more, as people not present
> >in meetings always get assigned extra work!). And there will not be any
> >overtime or anything.
> >
> >3. Oakland is basically a place to be avoided: most areas are filthy,
> >dirty, stink; drug dealing and shooting is rampant. They have had about
> >100 murders already this year.
> >
> >Are these valid reasons to get excused?
> >
> >And why is the compensation so ridiculous: 15 cents a mile ONE WAY ONLY,
> >and ZERO for the first day, $15 for additional days. So, 5 days of jury
> >service means $60 for 40 hours -- $1.50/hour, less than 1/5 of the
> >California MINIMUM wage! This in a CAPITALIST country ... legislators pay
> >themselves 100 times that amount!!
> >
> >Bhoot
>
> To escape having to show up at all is more difficult but to be
> dismissed via the preemptory challenge is easier to manage.
>
> Defense lawyers hate people who appear to be very conservative.
> So if you are dressed very conservatively, for example a plain
> business suit with white shirt and tie for men, and have short hair
> (but no shaved heads) and no rings in your ear the defense lawyer will
> be suspicious of you. If you are selected and asked to answer any
> questions posed by  the  lawyers express very conservative opinions in
> your answers.
>
> Chances are that the defense lawyer (In most cases the defense lawyer)
> will exercise his preemptory challenge privilege and dismiss you
> without cause.
>
> Old Timer

You really are a piece of selfish shit, aren't you? Assholes like you who
avoid their civic duty and who counsel others to do same don't deserve any
of the RIGHTS of citizenship. Listen up! If you want RIGHTS, you have to
fulfill RESPONSIBILITIES!!!


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