Jury Duty Question...

[Kate]

I received a jury duty summons, but it was sent to my parents home which I have not lived there for over four years. I have been at my current address for almost three years, my current address is on my drivers license and registration and I am a registered voted to my current address.

So, can I ignore this summons considering they didn't send it to my current address???

Can you tell I hate jury duty....

~Kate

[SarahK]

I don't think you can ignore it. Something similar happened to me last summer--I had a jury duty summons sent to my mother's house in WA...I was living in CT and had a CT drivers license, had voted in CT, paid taxes in CT, etc...

Anyhow, I called up the WA place and told them all this and they basically said I was lying...that they use current voter records (YEAH RIGHT!) to make up the lists. I had to write a letter and send a copy of my license in order to get out of it...otherwise I would have been fined some ridiculous penalty.

[Leslie]

Ditto what Sarah said. You can't ignore the summons. Call them and see what it takes to get out of it. Make sure you send everything in the mail certified so you can have proof they received it. What a PITA!

[karmah79]

My DH got a summons forwarded to him at our new address. It was for jury duty in our old county. He returned it with a copy of his drivers license as proof that we had moved to another county.

[Elizabeth]

I had this happen to me last summer. I had changed my voter registration long before and my DL back when I married three years ago. They sent it to my parents' house. I called them anyway....she said that it was from DL list but their list was not updated or something (obviously!). I got out of it becuase at the time my infant son was exclusively BF and wouldn't take a bottle.

[AmyLynn]

I agree with the others that you should call and send in some documentation. So many people want out of jury duty that they have serious penalties in some places.