{"id":57988,"date":"2025-01-08T20:42:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57988"},"modified":"2025-01-08T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:42:39","slug":"finally-a-jury-summons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57988","title":{"rendered":"Finally … a jury summons!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nearly six years into my Collin County, Texas, residency and I finally — finally!<\/em> I am telling you — received a jury summons.<\/p>\n

Call me a glutton for punishment, but I want<\/em> to be selected to serve on a trial jury.<\/p>\n

I came close once to getting selected for a trial jury. It occurred in Amarillo back in the late 1990s. I got the summons, reported for duty, then got herded into a jury pool waiting room where we cooled our jets for most of the day.<\/p>\n

Then the judge who managed the jury selection, 47th District Judge David Gleason, excused us. I must have been the only juror wannabe who expressed disappointment at that moment.<\/p>\n

You see, I long have been fascinated by the criminal justice system. I have wanted to serve on a jury since the time I first became eligible, which I guess was when I turned 21 years of age.<\/p>\n

I never received a jury summons when I lived in Oregon. I have received several of them since moving to Texas in the spring of 1984. Except for the near-selection in Randall County, my other summonses ended with a “don’t report” order, meaning the court system didn’t need me that day.<\/p>\n

I suppose I could seek an exemption based on my age; I am 75 years old now and I do not have to report. I won’t do that. I want<\/em> to serve on a jury.<\/p>\n

My reporting time is about a month away. I am going to hope for the best and hope they need<\/em> me to do my duty as a citizen. Hey, it’s the least I can do.<\/p>\n\n

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Nearly six years into my Collin County, Texas, residency and I finally — finally! I am telling you — received a jury summons. Call me a glutton for punishment, but I want to be selected to serve on a trial jury. I came close once to getting selected for a trial jury. It occurred in … Continue reading Finally … a jury summons!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1063,2613,3823],"class_list":["post-57988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-collin-county","tag-jury-duty","tag-randall-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57989,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57988\/revisions\/57989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}