Riverhead Grand Juror Summons question

Has anyone ever served in a grand jury in Riverhead? If so how long did you serve? Was it everyday? What were the hours like? What should I expect going there?

I have to go on May 21st. My first time ever and I don't know what to expect. I am stressing out because I am a SAHM and I don't drive. I live in Ronkonkoma so I am wondering how in the hel I am going to get there and find a sitter.

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You might not even get picked. A bunch of people go in you get a brief on the case the ask you a bunch of questions, then they decide if they want you. I did it, and it was for a week. If you get picked bring a book. I think I was in "court" a total of 2 hours the whole week.

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Thanks for the info

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I went for Riverhead Grand Jury in January...it's the summons where it says you MUST report right, not calling in? It sounds like the same one I got.

I showed up on the date/time, and the gig was that if you're selected, you serve 4 weeks starting that day...it's M-F 8-4 or something like that, but you have to serve all 4 weeks if you're selected. And you can postpone it via mail ahead of time I believe (with documentation), or you can postpone it while you're there...but they tell you that you will be summoned again, I think it's within 6 months, if you postpone it. Lots of people were the primary caregivers of their children, and you could postpone for that reason, but they'd keep sending you a summons for every 6 months and you'd have to keep sending in documentation and postponing it.

So unless you had a strong reason to postpone, they said to 'consider yourself serving for the next 4 weeks'. They then put everyone in big raffle drums and picked names from there, filling a certain # of spots for 4 locations I believe. Once they reached their # for each location, everyone else who wasn't called was LUCKY (me included!) and is excused from Grand Jury Duty for 6 years I believe.

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I was on juror duty this week. but they finally settled today.

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I served Grand Jury about 2 years ago.

I believe the 4 locations are:
Hauppauge (The DA's building)
Central Islip
and I believe the other 2 locations are in Riverhead

I requested the Hauppauge location and got it. I served 4 weeks, but it was very rare that we did 8-4. It was more like 10/11am to 2pm. I enjoyed it.

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Posted by Chatham-Chick

I served Grand Jury about 2 years ago.

I believe the 4 locations are:
Hauppauge (The DA's building)
Central Islip
and I believe the other 2 locations are in Riverhead

I requested the Hauppauge location and got it. I served 4 weeks, but it was very rare that we did 8-4. It was more like 10/11am to 2pm. I enjoyed it.

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Posted by abutterfly1123

Posted by Chatham-Chick

I served Grand Jury about 2 years ago.

I believe the 4 locations are:
Hauppauge (The DA's building)
Central Islip
and I believe the other 2 locations are in Riverhead

I requested the Hauppauge location and got it. I served 4 weeks, but it was very rare that we did 8-4. It was more like 10/11am to 2pm. I enjoyed it.

That's good to know. I hope I can request something closer to me. Hauppauge would be so much easier for me.