There's an episode of The West Wing where IIRC Donna was contemplating getting out of jury duty by employing something like this tactic. She was told in no uncertain terms by Josh and/or Sam that she would be thrown in jail for contempt if she did.
That does not seem to be the case in the real world, though. Who would have thought that fiction would lie to me.
Josh and Sam struck me as exceptionally principled characters with a strong sense of civic duty. I do think that lying to avoid jury duty is fundamentally wrong, but there could be extenuating circumstances. In any case, it doesn't surprise me that the courts don't have to time or resources to follow up on this sort of thing, especially when it boils down to an opinion or bias in general. Such things must be very hard to prove.
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There's an episode of The West Wing where IIRC Donna was contemplating getting out of jury duty by employing something like this tactic. She was told in no uncertain terms by Josh and/or Sam that she would be thrown in jail for contempt if she did.
That does not seem to be the case in the real world, though. Who would have thought that fiction would lie to me.
Josh and Sam struck me as exceptionally principled characters with a strong sense of civic duty. I do think that lying to avoid jury duty is fundamentally wrong, but there could be extenuating circumstances. In any case, it doesn't surprise me that the courts don't have to time or resources to follow up on this sort of thing, especially when it boils down to an opinion or bias in general. Such things must be very hard to prove.