If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts?
If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts?
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.
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I just want to add, that this is completely hypothetical. I was just fantasizing about slipping onto Trump's jury.
There are much easier ways to get a lifetime of death threats.
But, would it be worth it?
Yea, I'd still volunteer. Honestly, serving on a jury judging Trump you'd be contributing to the preservation of democracy in a more significant way than pretty much anyone else.
So uh... for managed democracy and super earth!
Those feelings are the sort of thing that would get you disqualified from the jury.
Oh, definitely... but I'm ineligible anyways.
I'd be right there with you. ✊
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.
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.
“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