jury duty
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Or they call and say you missed jury duty and a warrant has been issued for your arrest.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
A jury summons letter also typically includes instructions for seeking an exemption or excusal, and courts often excuse parents and primary caregivers of minor children from jury duty.
From Slate • Aug. 25, 2025
Despite the state of the world today, there’s evidence that this is possible through the use of randomly selected mini-publics modeled on jury duty, whether here in America or around the world.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2025
On Jan. 8, Christina Hsu drove from where she lives in the San Gabriel Valley to the downtown criminal courthouse for jury duty.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025
Why compelled to humiliate himself by laying bare to any man, judge though he be, his poverty and then have to argue on that point as an excuse for not doing jury duty?
From The Romance and Tragedy by Russell, William Ingraham
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