Jury Rights Day 2024 is on Thursday, September 5, 2024: Do you get paid anything for jury duty?

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If you are employed full time, your employer must pay you your regular wages for the first five days of jury service.

Full time employment is anything more than 30 hours per week.

If you do not work full time, the state may pay you up to $50 per day for out-of-pocket expenses (with proper documentation), for the first five days of jury service. Out of pocket expenses include child care, parking, and mileage or other transportation costs. You must complete a Reimbursement Form, JD-JA-16 and return it to the court.

The state pays all jurors $50 per day starting with the sixth day of jury service and each subsequent day of jury service.

I had pretrial yesterday and jury trial in 13 days!! NEED HELP?

1. Your right to jury trial was not "refused". You have no such right. When dealing with certain smaller criminal cases (like one w/ a 30 day jail sentence), most States do not require an automatic jury trial unless one is requested by the Defendant, otherwise, the bench trial is the standard. Since you failed to properly make that request, it was slated as a bench trial. You probably got lucky by getting a jury trial scheduled, because usually the request has to be shortly after the charge is filed.

2. You probably are not entitled to a PD because you aren't facing a "prison" sentence, you are facing a county jail sentence. You can try and contact the local Public Defender's office to see if your charge qualifies, but likely it does not.

3. If the discovery evidence is not provided to you, then you need to tell the Judge that on the day of the trial to get a new date. If you don't get this info before the trial date, all it means is that the trial will be delayed.

4. You are not going to be able to "disqualify" the officer's testimony.

Someone help...Jury Duty Question?

You need to contact your professor, tell him you have jury duty on the day of the (rescheduled) final exam. By law, he must excuse you to do your civic duty. It's not your fault he changed the date of the final.