Jury Duty?

Not sure of the specifics as to how it works in that part of the world. Here the clerk for each county maintains a list of eligible jurors (over 18, resident of the state for one year, and of the county six months, no conviction of a felony or treason, not excused due to age or infirmity).

As jurors are needed, they are then randomly selected. In some less populated areas they literally put each name on a piece of paper, put them in a box together and pick them out one at a time. In more urban areas the names are kept in a database and randomly selected using a computer algorithim. It is intended to be random, so in theory your name could simply never come up. There is also human error in the system, so if nobody updated the list with your name, you would not be selected.

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Jury Duty?