my dad has jury duty in angleton but he live in pearland. is this normal? he lives over 40+ miles away from court. iam tryin get him outta of it but i dont know if i can. they tell him he has to get on a damn bus at 6 in the morning just to make it to court at 8. this just dont seem reasonable man help please!
lmao!! thats strange and out of district.might be a mistake..you can call and have then change it or cancel it.
I got a jury duty summons once and forgot about it. Nothing ever happened afterward, someone told me that you can always say you never got the mail.
yah but he already called and tried to reschedule cause it was too soon and he had not made transportation arrangements yet can i call in for him tomorrow and tell them its out of district and my dad dont live in no stinking angleton?
According to the Brazoria County web site, everyone is entitled to one rescheduling which it looks like can be done for any reason. Also, if your dad is 70+ years old, he can be exempted from jury duty.
I don't think I would risk the contempt of court by failing to show for jury duty. And definitely wouldn't risk the perjury by lying about it if the judge later asked you. They can, and sometimes do, send an officer by your house to bring you in if you fail to show up.
i live in pearland and same thing happens to us... I'm exempt, but others have actually gone all the way there... it sucks.
I live at the southern most tip of Mongomery County. I still get Harris County jury summons all the time. I just go online and click the exemption that says I don't live in Harris County. Why do they even have that exemption? Can't they figure it out on their own and not send summons to people who don't live in the county?
Seems like you may still be on the Harris County voter rolls. Have you ever contacted Harris County to specifically tell them you don't live there?
They did that to me when I lived in Chicago. I lived on the near south side, and they made me go out to the northwest suburbs. I didn't have a car and was poor, so I had to take buses. Buses within Chicago are okay, but out in the suburbs, they aren't. It took me forever. At lunch, I went to the cafeteria and asked them to break a 5 so I could use the payphone (this was in the ancient days) and they wouldn't unless I bought something. It was a miserable day all around. My advice is that you drive your father to jury duty and pick him up when you're done. Or, he can just not bother and see what they're going to do about it. If it's a fine, maybe that's easier. If it's jail for contempt, maybe not.
Never really thought about it. I just assumed when I checked that exemption they would automatically take me off. I voted in Montgomery County last year with no problems, so it never occured to me. If not, well, the world needs ditch diggers too!
At some point you get taken off the voter rolls once you haven't voted in X months/years. My brother moved to California a number of years back and he was still on the voting rolls a year or two later. I don't know if he ever got any jury summons, though.
