They don't really care if you've been on a jury or not other than if you've served, you get a 1-year break before you can be called again.
I'm on district jury duty which runs for 2 months. We pretty much only do low-level stuff: disability hearings, misdemeanors, & civil cases under a specific dollar amount (I forget the amount though). Once we're done we're off the hook for 2 years; so if we get called up again all we have to do is fill out the paperwork to indicate when we last served, etc. (Even if we don't actually get selected for a jury)
So far we've had 4 cases - 2 disability cases and 2 misdemeanors.
What surprised me was that one of the ladies who served on the jury for last friday's case was picked for the final 12 for yesterday's case too. And some of us haven't even made it up there yet. (Like me).
I was selected once before, but that was back in NY and I was in the military at the time, stationed out of state. So they pulled my name from the books altogether. I mean military *can* serve - heck even cops can be picked - but not if you're stationed outside a specific radius etc.
Oh and I forgot to mention, Dad was called up again a couple of years back. Mom filled out the paperwork for him though to get him excused for medical (age combined with various conditions etc).
See? You don't have to lie to get out of jury duty. Just tell the truth!
I mean hell we went through 5 jurors before they even got to the part where they whittle the jury down from 12 to 6.
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