If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? - eviltoast

I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. I’m old so there’s a MySpace account out there. But I’ve mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    First, wow. Rent free and all that.

    Second, I don’t want to be on anyone’s jury. And if I were selected for a jury, the government is going to have to work damn hard to get me to convict anyone.

    I’ve been rejected from a jury pool before. Poor choice by the legal defender because of their own presumptions about me.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I feel like saying “I do not believe in convicting anyone” is a good way to not be on a jury. Otherwise, I hear you can just mention the magic words “jury nullification” and get kicked out at roughly Lightspeed.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        “I’m a prison abolitionist” or “I support the prisoners union” work wonders as well. If you go far enough left it’s harder to stay on a jury than get kicked off