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Re: Jury Duty

Posted: April 24 13, 2:50 pm
by haltz
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

Re: Jury Duty

Posted: April 24 13, 5:20 pm
by sighyoung
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.

Re: Jury Duty

Posted: April 25 13, 8:29 am
by lukethedrifter
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

Re: Jury Duty

Posted: April 25 13, 8:43 am
by IMADreamer
$12 a day? I gotta think jury duty ruins people financially.

Re: Jury Duty

Posted: April 25 13, 10:23 am
by cardsfansince82
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.

Re: Jury Duty

Posted: April 25 13, 10:30 am
by stlouie_lipp
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).