Saturday, January 19, 2008  Juror Records  I'm not sure why, but
the concept of jury duty keeps following me around, like a bad
odor. I guess it all started earlier in the week when a co-
worker announced that he had been called for jury duty and he
wasn't sure how long the court would require him to be there.
I've never been a big fan of jury duty, but when I lived in
California, there was a law which stated that you were told on
the first day if you were to be on a jury. If not, you were
dismissed and couldn't be called back for another year. People
always came up with excuses and ploys to get out of jury duty,
many of which are no longer accepted. Recently, in Colorado, so
few people showed up for jury duty, that the court staff went
out and subpoenaed people on the street for "emergency jury
duty." Read the article here.  Laughs aside, I have found that
many counties have jury duty-related records available. Many
times they are listed as "jurors census" or "jurors lists." Of
course, being in the 19th cent