Question: What do you do when you want to get out of jury duty?
Answer: Tell the court clerks how you really feel…
A Montana man had some choice words after receiving a jury duty notice earlier this year. Erik Slye, 36, replied with a notarized affidavit seeking to be excused from his duties on the District Court panel in Gallatin County, with some very choice words.
“Jury duty is a complete waste of time. I would rather count the wrinkles on my dogs balls than sit on a jury. Get it through your thick skulls.”
I don’t think there is any confusing that.
In his notarized affidavit, Slye demanded to be excused from jury duty because he couldn’t take time off from work. It has a sound to it that he had been down this road before, so he decided to make things clear this time I guess.
The affidavit did not sit well with court officials, and it led a judge to threaten to jail Slye when he showed up after being summoned to court. He apologized to the court on a judge’s orders, and narrowly avoided being cited on a criminal failure to appear rap.
However, he was also excused from jury duty.
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May 9th, 2009 at 1:02 am
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May 11th, 2009 at 11:42 am
LOL!! wish I had the stones to do something like that, exactly how I feel about jury duty.
“Your civic duty my aze”, like the man says and I agree I have never seen a bigger collection of sheep than what are selected for jury duty.
If they managed to select a few juries with some stones this massive failure with drug enforcement would have been scrapped long ago as was prohibition by jury nullification.
I was never so frustrated by having to serve on a grand jury for 17 weeks and having my moron co-jurers just rubber stamp the prosecuter’s indictments as if they worked for him/her, they made it embarrassing to be one of only one or two raising their hands against indictments, heaven forbid discussing any cases, we may not be dismissed on time- a GRAND failure!
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Yah I agree with you John.. This guy rules lol