Three years is apparently the standard interval. According to the woman giving our juror orientation this morning, at least in New Jersey they have four different sources that they use to generate their list of potential jurors: real estate records, tax records, voter registration and one more that I'm blanking on. And she said that if you use different forms of your name on the different sources (full middle name vs. initial, with Jr/Sr/II/III/etc vs without, and so on), their automated list system isn't smart enough to realize the variations all mean the same person, so your chance of getting a jury summons goes up because you end up with multiple entries on the list from which the random draw is made. I suspect it's much the same in other jurisdictions.
As for frequent summonses, when I lived in New Brunswick NJ during the 1990s, I got called like clockwork every three years. I ended up on three different juries -- 1 criminal and 2 civil -- and was the foreman on one of the civil suits.
Right now, though, I'm just the guy in the middle of the front row, judge's right side, in the gallery.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
As for frequent summonses, when I lived in New Brunswick NJ during the 1990s, I got called like clockwork every three years. I ended up on three different juries -- 1 criminal and 2 civil -- and was the foreman on one of the civil suits.
Right now, though, I'm just the guy in the middle of the front row, judge's right side, in the gallery.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.