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she should simply present medical documentation to that effect.

And if it's the court's idea that she should have a babysitter, the court should foot the bill.


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If you don't want to go just ignore the summons, say you didn't get it.

Judge made a very bad call. He should have excused her when she showed up with the baby. I hope she's got a good lawyer, she ought to be able to sue the state back for this.

I was outraged that a man with a small business was excused immediately, while a woman who was going to have to pay $50/day for childcare for her three young children wasn't.

As it happens, I didn't make the cut for the jury, but sat through almost the entire day of selection.

Judges, mostly men, understand men's issues, like owning a business, but haven't a clue about women's, such as being a breast-feeding mom. And apparently the concept of a stay-at-home mom is also alien to them.

and we were forced a part. I would be so distracted and could not give the case my full attention. But I suppose if he was with someone nearby and I could be with him on frequent breaks...we'd be able to manage. My sons would not drink from a bottle either. They never had to, thank goodness.

She would not take a bottle.

But by 7 months, she was beginning to eat soft table food, crackers, and some baby food (though she was quite picky about it). I'd say that it was approx. 85% nursing at that age. If necessary, I probably could have left her with a babysitter for about 3 or 4 hours at a time.

I didn't go to the link so I don't know the particulars of this case, but if the mother could get the court to pay for a nearby babysitter, I don't see why she couldn't do jury duty. 'Nearby' as in someone close enough to go to during breaks, but not necessarily there at the courthouse... within perhaps a 15 minute walk or drive.

When I did jury duty years ago, I remember having quite a few reasonably long breaks -and- we rarely put in much more than 5 hours a day anyway. It was a statutory rape case that lasted 3 days. We'd typically begin at 9am, have an hour (or more) for lunch at about noontime, then another approximately 2 hours in the afternoon.

I'm not saying it'd be easy, and would hope the judge would carefully consider the difficulty involved (which he didn't appear to do in this case)... That said, hypothetically, if the judge allowed for childcare reimbursement, it'd be do-able (imho).