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Re: Jury Duty

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IMADreamer wrote:Do people get paid for jury duty? If not how does someone live for six weeks or more on a really long trial with out a paycheck?
That's what I was wondering. It's like $18/day I think in St. Louis.

Edit - $12 apparently
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haltz wrote:
IMADreamer wrote:Do people get paid for jury duty? If not how does someone live for six weeks or more on a really long trial with out a paycheck?
That's what I was wondering. It's like $18/day I think in St. Louis.

Edit - $12 apparently
Taxable, too.
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stlouie_lipp wrote:Well, that's strange. An indictment comes from a grand jury and basically says, "yeah, there is enough evidence to arrest this guy and bring him before a judge to be arraigned." Could he be making arraignments to turn himself in? Did he just post a bond and was given a court date? Probably something along those lines.
Probably. Or he didn't tell the truth about being arrested.
The FBI news release says he was arrested.


http://www.fbi.gov/stlouis/press-releas ... conspiracy
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$12 a day? I gotta think jury duty ruins people financially.
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IMADreamer wrote:$12 a day? I gotta think jury duty ruins people financially.

Where I work we get our normal salary pay but have to forfeit the $12. I think that's pretty common.
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Re: Jury Duty

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lukethedrifter wrote:
stlouie_lipp wrote:Well, that's strange. An indictment comes from a grand jury and basically says, "yeah, there is enough evidence to arrest this guy and bring him before a judge to be arraigned." Could he be making arraignments to turn himself in? Did he just post a bond and was given a court date? Probably something along those lines.
Probably. Or he didn't tell the truth about being arrested.
The FBI news release says he was arrested.


http://www.fbi.gov/stlouis/press-releas ... conspiracy
ouch. Tell him the best thing he can do in the federal criminal justice system is to fess up about what he did (if he did it).
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