- Jurisdiction
- Florida
So I have a couple questions regarding Jury Duty.
1. If you get a Jury Summons but just ignore it. Since most courts just use regular mail, not certified & signature required, they have NO PROOF that you got it. And we all know MAIL DOES GET LOST. So it would seem to me, if they harassed you over this, under the "innocent until proven guilty", short of them raiding your home and finding the summons, they have no proof to dispute a person's claim that "they never received it". Now I imagine if you did this many times, maybe even more than once, it would become a problem. Please talk to this matter.
2. If you wind up having to actually go to the court as a prospective juror, what can you do to have one or both sides turn you away? Can you wear a tshirt that says "I don't want to be here"? Can you flat out tell them something like "you don't want me on your jury, because I don't want to be here and I will be as uncooperative as possible"? Please talk to this matter also.
I tried searches to find out about these issues, but only got the normal standard stuff of what you are supposed to do.
Thanks.
1. If you get a Jury Summons but just ignore it. Since most courts just use regular mail, not certified & signature required, they have NO PROOF that you got it. And we all know MAIL DOES GET LOST. So it would seem to me, if they harassed you over this, under the "innocent until proven guilty", short of them raiding your home and finding the summons, they have no proof to dispute a person's claim that "they never received it". Now I imagine if you did this many times, maybe even more than once, it would become a problem. Please talk to this matter.
2. If you wind up having to actually go to the court as a prospective juror, what can you do to have one or both sides turn you away? Can you wear a tshirt that says "I don't want to be here"? Can you flat out tell them something like "you don't want me on your jury, because I don't want to be here and I will be as uncooperative as possible"? Please talk to this matter also.
I tried searches to find out about these issues, but only got the normal standard stuff of what you are supposed to do.
Thanks.