Sample Letter For Exemption From Duty In Allegheny
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If you want to postpone your service to a later date or be excused, you must make a request in writing to the jury office of the courthouse to which you have been summoned.
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.
Pennsylvania law does not exclude persons due to their age. Jurors are to be over the age of 18. However, if you are 70 years of age or older you may be excused without a doctor's note.
Any person who fails to appear pursuant to such order or who fails to show good cause for noncompliance with the summons may be fined up to $1,000.00, imprisoned not more than three days, ordered to perform community service, or any combination thereof.
You are exempt if 1) you are in active service in the PA or U.S. armed forces, 2) you are an immediate family member of a victim of a criminal homicide, or 3) you served as a juror within the past three years (unless you served for only 1 or 2 days).
No, the law prohibits any employer from preventing an employee from serving as a juror. The law also prohibits an employer from depriving a juror of benefits because of jury service, such as requiring you to use vacation time to serve.
The only way to be immune to jury duty is to not have a driver's license and not register to vote.
Citizens demonstrating undue hardship or extreme inconvenience including, but not limited to, individuals in active military service, primary medical caregivers as certified by a medical doctor, and persons submitting written requests for excusal due to family matters, may be granted temporary excusal from jury service ...
Reasons for Being Excused from Jury Service Medical reasons. Public necessity. Undue hardship. Dependent care. Student Status. Military conflict. Other reason deemed sufficient by the court.
