Important news about Valentine's day this year and any chance on an update to my stories. · 5:24pm Jan 12th, 2023
So usually I either update a story or have a nice new one to post for Valentine's day/ Single's awareness day.
I really wanted to have one this year, but I sadly can't promise anything. This year has just started and it's thrown crap my way. I'm going to explain, but there will be a TLDR at the end if you don't feel like reading the entire tale.
So I obviously can't go into too many details for this, but I got a Jury Duty summons pretty much a few days after the year began. Most of you who have done Jury Duty probably have an idea of how that sucks, but LUCKY ME. I didn't get NORMAL Jury duty. Oh no I got some new crap filled one.
So to put it as simply as I can. Apparently, I'm being considered for pretty much one of the (if not THE) biggest cases my state has ever seen. So they mixed up how everything works.
I'm not sure how it's supposed to go, but this has been a nightmare, and the best part? It's extremely difficult for me to just GET to the stupid office. If I didn't have a friend giving me a ride to the train station at the very least I have no clue how I'd be pulling this off.
The first day we went, we basically got sat down and shown this long four hour video (with a break every now and then) all about the case. (which I obviously can't say anything about) Then told to come back a few days later for the questionnaire. THEN we could claim hardships. Mine being of course transportation is VERY DIFFICULT for me getting there, and I'm rather low on money right now being I live paycheck to paycheck. I didn't even have enough money to eat lunch that day. If someone hadn't offered to pay for me, I'd have just gone without. The money I used for the train was borrowed from the same friend that drove me to the train station.
So I went back recently to do the questionnaire thing and present my hardship. Hoping they'll let me off because if I'm chosen I have no clue how I'm supposed to get there.
Oh and did I mention we had to be there at 8:30am every time? I sat there all day and by 5 pm someone came out and informed us that the Judge and people recessed for the night. Me and the rest of the people in the room were just out of luck, we'd have to come back at another date to have ourselves heard.
And the best part? We're REQUIRED to show back up. Like If I don't, I'll have the police come to get me. All so I can present my hardship which is ironically IT'S A STRUGGLE JUST TO GET THERE AND THEY'RE MAKING ME DO IT THREE TIMES NOW.
That's also three days of work I'm just losing now. Real fun. Reall hoping I can make it through the next month alright.
So yeah I have to go back again in a few days from now, and I don't even know if I'll be excused for my reason, but since I don't feel like GOING TO JAIL because I missed a bus. I have no choice. It's left me exhausted, stressed out, and sadly unable to really focus on getting ANY sort of writing done. So at this point, I have no idea if I'll have anything for you guys.
TLDRL: Jury duty isn't working like normal, keeps requiring me to come back for part of the process. It's really difficult for me to even get there, and I still have to go back again. Leaving me so stressed out I can't focus on writing.
Well, if you want to weasel out of it, you could start bringing up the topic of jury nullification:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
It does sound like it might be a serious crime though, not 'lock someone up for having some drugs' where a prosecutor might actually fear that someone could convince fellow jurors and pull off jury nullification.
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I appreciate the suggestions, but sadly given this isn't being done the way usual Jury selections are done, like literally nothing of that sort is usable. I've gone three times now which is still considered THE SELECTION process. We're on hardships right now. I STILL haven't been able to present my hardship.
When I FINALLY get to do that. (and I pray I'll be excused, but in the horrible twist I don't) If I am still on to be selected, I'll then have to call a number every night and wait for them to call me BACK IN in which case an interview might happen and THAT'S when I'd be able to say anything like that, and at this point I have no clue when that could happen. They didn't grab something like 40 people for this, they are trying to narrow down SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE into 14 people.
Nothing is as it should, and it's taking forever, and I'm stuck losing work days to this, but I can't talk to anyone (because the only person I can talk to who has the power to do anything IS THE JUDGE and that's who I've been trying to talk to for the last couple of times now. It'll be THREE this next week. I have to go back AGAIN because my hardship STILL wasn't able to be heard.) No one else can excuse me or do anything about this, and if I don't go one day. It's a fine or possible jail time.
Our government at work. :(