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Public Service Message: Jury Duty in Brooklyn — Brooklynian

Public Service Message: Jury Duty in Brooklyn

tyroneshoelaces
tyroneshoelaces
edited November -1 in Park Slope
For those of you who are unfortunate enough to get summoned to the Downtown Brooklyn Superior Court (320 Jay St.) for Jury Duty, it should be filed somewhere in your memory that they have WiFi and a few limited wall sockets (if you're acute enough to sniff them out). In other words, bring your laptop to combat the extreme boredom -- that is if you don't have something better (like a book or a pocket rocket) to pass the time. This is in the Jury Pool room on the second floor.

Just a public service announcement. I had the pleasure of serving today and most regretted not bringing my laptop. They don't have this stuff in my small farming town of St. Olaf, Minnesota.

Tyrone Shoelaces.

Comments

  • chickerita
    chickerita
    I did jury duty a few weeks ago. They've vastly improved the system since the last time I did it (in 2000). I won't say it was *pleasant*, but if you make it through the first day without getting picked for a jury duty or carried over until the next day, you are done for EIGHT years. We are the only county in all of NYS to have such a light obligation.

    Moral: instead of spending time and effort trying to get out of it, just suck it up and then relax for 8 more years.
  • xlizellx
    xlizellx
    I enjoyed my time on Jury Duty -- and was there for 1 day. Selected for jury, went to trial, deliberated, came home.
  • turtle95
    turtle95
    If you get picked, what do they make you do with your laptop? I would imagine you can't take it into a court room with you. Do they have a locker or some place to put it?
  • xlizellx
    xlizellx
    i would imagine you could take it with you in a bag -- i had my phone and whatnot during the trial..
  • fitzroy sq
    fitzroy sq
    By all means, if you have anything wireless bring it. I had to do this a couple of months ago and was in there all day long and was never called. I didn't bring my laptop and could have had a full work day. But getting an outlet isn't too hard.

    There's one massive room everyone is in, and then there is a smaller room to the side - make a bee line for the smaller room. Everyone thinks you all have to be in the big room so they all sit there, but you don't.

    But I was disappointed that I didn't get a chance to deliberate.
  • b-n-b68
    b-n-b68
    Great idea. I don't think this would work in federal court, though. Can anyone confirm? At a federal court out of state all cellphones were banned (thus no iPhonesallowed; never tried to bring in a laptop) -- would think the same rules apply to all federal courthouses.
  • marzipan
    marzipan
    agree completely with Fitzroy's recommendation of the small room

    it's warmer in there, and that's where the vending machines are. gotta treat yourself to something packaged & processed when you are doing your civic duty.
  • antigone
    antigone
    Thank you for this. I just got my summons for January 13th. Will bring laptop and head for the small room.
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