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    Default Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Well.. I got selected for Jury Duty in January. I'm definitely not looking to be the test case for "I have a weapon, can you put it in a storage locker.

    Regardless, has anyone tried carrying to a courthouse and asking the gaurd to secure your weapon?

    And.... What can I expect when being on a Jury?

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    Default Re: Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Yes, I enter the county court house armed all the time---they have lock boxes and the "guard" for lack of a better word hands hand me a key whenever he sees me.

    The Sheriffs office is in the court house and business there a good bit.

    Darn must be nice to get jury duty---any time I get called, I call them back and they tell me that I am disqualified for jury duty---darn I would like to sit on a jury.

    grizz
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    Default Re: Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Quote Originally Posted by GRIZZLYBEAR View Post
    Yes, I enter the county court house armed all the time---they have lock boxes and the "guard" for lack of a better word hands hand me a key whenever he sees me.

    The Sheriffs office is in the court house and business there a good bit.

    Darn must be nice to get jury duty---any time I get called, I call them back and they tell me that I am disqualified for jury duty---darn I would like to sit on a jury.

    grizz
    I was kind of mad at first (I found out what they pay you), but then I found out my company policy is to pay you your regular wage while on jury duty. I don't even have to take a PTO day.

    It should be pretty nifty, I really don't know what to expect!

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    Default Re: Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Congratulations on your Jury Duty notification.

    You are the last check and balance in the system.

    PLEASE, inform yourself to your rights of "Jury Nullification"

    I've gotten called for Jury Duty three times this year.

    Too bad I havent lived in the state of Delaware for about six years. I wonder why they keep on calling me.
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    “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
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    Default Re: Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Quote Originally Posted by GRIZZLYBEAR View Post
    Darn must be nice to get jury duty---any time I get called, I call them back and they tell me that I am disqualified for jury duty---darn I would like to sit on a jury.
    Why are you always disqualified?
    "Political Correctness is just tyranny with manners"
    -Charlton Heston

    "[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
    -James Madison, Federalist Papers, No. 46.

    "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy." [sic]
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    "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
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    Default Re: Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Quote Originally Posted by ChamberedRound View Post
    Why are you always disqualified?
    Having seen an outline of Grizz on one of his pictures, I asume they dont make the seats big enough. Think Juggernaught from X-Men.
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    ~Samuel Adams

    "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
    ~Thomas Jefferson, 1791

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    Default Re: Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Quote Originally Posted by ChamberedRound View Post
    Why are you always disqualified?
    CR

    I am disqualified due to my employment. I work as Guard at a Level 5 or Max-Security State Prison and that's a big time disqualifier for criminal cases.


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    Default Re: Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Had jury duty earlier this year, if you are picked bring some reading material or your laptop.
    If you carry, lock your firearm in the courthouse I would not trust in vehicle due to the amount of auto and foot traffic going through the parking lot or on the side streets.

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    Default Re: Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Surprised nobody brought up civic responsibilities as a citizen. I've been called for jury duty a few times (but never picked) however as with voting, I consider it a solemn duty and serve with pride.

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    Default Re: Jury Duty in Doylestown...

    Quote Originally Posted by GRIZZLYBEAR View Post
    I am disqualified due to my employment. I work as Guard at a Level 5 or Max-Security State Prison and that's a big time disqualifier for criminal cases.
    Yeah, I can see how the court might think you have a biased opinion
    "Political Correctness is just tyranny with manners"
    -Charlton Heston

    "[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
    -James Madison, Federalist Papers, No. 46.

    "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy." [sic]
    -John Quincy Adams

    "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
    -Thomas Jefferson

    Μολών λαβέ!
    -King Leonidas

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