Jury Trial Demand Withdrawn In Massachusetts
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If serving at the courthouse to which you are summoned causes undue hardship, you may request a hardship transfer to another courthouse within the same county. Please note that inconvenience is not an eligible hardship.
Sole parents, main breadwinners, leader on a big project at work, physical or mental disabilities that may impede your attendance... these things will almost always get you out of Jury Duty, though you should try to bring documentation of some kind to prove it.
C. 234A, §§ 42 and 44: Delinquent Jurors. Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 234A, Section 42 makes it a crime for a person to fail to appear for juror service or to fail to perform any part of his or her juror service.
You are disqualified from service if: You aren't a citizen of the United States. You'll need to provide your alien card identification number, visa status, or other pertinent information. You aren't a Massachusetts resident and you don't live in Massachusetts for more than 50% of the year.
If you don't want to serve, you can notify the OJC that you'd like to be disqualified, and the OJC will permanently remove you from the juror list. You'll need to contact the OJC to be added to the list again if you later decide you'd like to serve.
The only way to be immune to jury duty is to not have a driver's license and not register to vote.
Typically, a plaintiff will make its demand in the complaint filed at the outset of the case, and a defendant usually will make its demand in an answer to the complaint. If either party asks for a jury, the trial will be by jury.
Example: In a civil trial, the parties may reach a settlement agreement before the trial is completed. In this case, the judge may recommend withdrawing the jurors and ending the trial since the case has been resolved outside of court.
New Rule 5.1 requires a party that files a pleading, written motion, or other paper drawing in question the constitutionality of a federal or state statute to file a notice of constitutional question and serve it on the United States Attorney General or state attorney general.