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Feb 11, 2023, 10:46 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by Moose72
How terrible! It's not a "privilege" when you can't follow what's going on in the court room or what the other jurors are saying! Can't understand what's going on around you.
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Yes, exactly!
SO...what did I JUST receive in the mail 2 hours ago? An invitation from the Superior Court of California to sit on a grand jury in my county! They chose me, the letter says, because they want a "fair representation" of the people of my county. Somehow, I must meet that. Hmm. And they're offering to pay me a whole $15/day PLUS 57.5 cents per gallon of gas to drive to the town courthouse and sit on a grand jury.
A long time ago I was in a support group for wives of Vietnam vets. Fabulous group of women. So one of the women, her name was Vicki, was called up to sit on a grand jury - it ended up being eleven months! She had to be sequestered; the state paid for her to literally live in a Hilton Hotel room for 11 months. She had a husband she hated (they were going through a divorce) and 2 teen kids she couldn't get along with (she was hard-core military). Sss...I remember her having a huge argument with her kid about the kid wanting to go to a Jane's Addiction concert 
When she returned to the group, finally, Vicki said she loved the whole thing...the grand jury duty, the hotel room. She was sorry it was over! She said she had missed her dogs. 
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