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CGmoz t1_jb0b4ec wrote

I've been called 3 times. All 3 times I just hung around in the waiting area for about 4 hours and was then sent home. One time we were told this was because every case set for that day had either pled out or settled that morning.

As to taking time off from your job - your employer is required to pay you your regular earnings for the first three days. After that the state pays $50 a day.

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Bendyb3n t1_jb21oje wrote

It’s truly an atrotious deal if it winds up being a lengthy trial, $50/day is a joke in 2023

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CGmoz t1_jb27j2f wrote

Believe it or not, most states pay less.

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Sabu_mark t1_jb3hd1q wrote

It's weird how the 13th Amendment bans all kinds of compulsory labor except as punishment for a crime, and they definitely could have added "except jury duty doesn't count" but they chose not to, and the amendment is written in plain unmistakable English instead of legalese, impossible to misunderstand, but literally every court in the country says "yeah but we're just gonna make jury duty compulsory anyway."

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