Is Jury Duty mandatory towards Canadian citizens? (piefed.social)

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by Shadow79@piefed.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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I mean, have you received a summons (letter) from the courts telling you that you’re selected to be a juror. You show up to the courts and assigned a number along with being asked about occupation, status or whether you know anything related to the case in question & etc. but is the probability on becoming part of the 12 jurors that high? Is it also a criminal offense for failing to show up?

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[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

I got one, sort of. It was mailed to my parents house but I didn't live there at the time. I don't think I actually got it until after the "respond by" date, I was living 5 hours away and didn't visit very often