What is a jury summons letter?

Your Jury Summons asks you to attend for jury service. It will tell you the date, time and court building you have to attend. You must reply to this summons using the Reply to Jury Summons form.

How do I know if I have jury duty in California?

Check juror status – you may check your jury status after 5:00 PM the day before your appearance date. Click here to proceed or contact the court at (909) 884-1858 for a recorded message that will advise you of your required reporting or call-in schedule.

What disqualifies you from jury duty in California?

California has a list of specific excuses that can be used to be exempt from reporting for jury duty, including excuses for military, elected official, age, police, medical worker, firefighter and disability. You can also be excused if you don’t meet the basic eligibility requirements for jury duty in CA.

How do I write a letter to get out of jury duty?

When writing your or your employee’s jury duty excuse letter, you must include basic information like the juror number, date, and your mailing address. You also need to include the clerk’s information. Include detailed information about why you or your employee needs to be excused from serving jury duty.

What is extreme inconvenience?

Examples of undue hardship and extreme inconvenience include living a great distance or long travel time from the court or a grave illness or emergency in your family that outweighs the importance of jury service. You can also ask the court to consider other hardships that are similarly significant.

How do I get excused from jury duty?

This field is required. Generally, the only way anyone is permanently excused from jury duty is if the prospective juror is him- or herself permanently disabled, and has a doctors letter to that effect, or is disabled and over a certain age when they are then allowed to self-declare their disability.

Can a perspective juror claim caretaking for a disabled child?

Usually, if the perspective juror is claiming caretaking, even of a younger disabled child that may go on for years and years, the jury selection process does not assume that the need to be the caregiver is a permanent one, for example if the patient passes away or is subsequently located in a facility where 24 hour care is provided.

Do I have to serve on jury duty in San Mateo County?

According to their website, yes you do have to serve. There is a list of exemptions. This field is required. Am I supposed to serve on Jury duty in San Mateo County if I am over 70 plus yrs. of age?? Do I need a reason?? This field is required.