do celebrities have to do jury duty?

Question

IN THE UK, GO AWAY AMERICANS.

Answer 1

yes- anyone on the elctoral register is eligable for jury service

Answer 2

Yes. Before the right of peremptory challenge was abolished in England in 1988, the defence counsel might well have asked a celebrity to stand down if counsel feared that the celebrity might be biased in a certain way against his client and might, because of the aura surrounding celebrities of various kinds, swing the other jurors to his or her way of thinking. The crown, that is, the prosecutor, still has the right to ask a prospective juror to “stand aside,” which is a form of the peremptory challenge, but this is seldom used. However, this is one case where it might be used by the prosecution, if there was sufficient knowledge about the person concerned to cause doubts as to reliability as an impartial member of the jury. If, for example, that person was famous for taking a public stand on the very issue being tried, then it would be highly inadvisable to have him/her serve on the jury.

Otherwise, being a celebrity is not in itself sufficient reason to be excused jury service. But being a celebrity with important public commitments might well prove sufficient reason. It all depends what you mean by celebrity. It is too wide a term to give a precise answer!

Answer 3

Yes, to put it simply. there are only a few classes of people that are excluded from jury service, those in the legal profession, including policemen, those with a conviction in the past 3 or 5 years cant remember how long, disabled people, well theyre not excluded but the judge may allow them not to if they apply to be excused. But celebrities? theres no clash of interests and theres no reason why they cant be on jury. Though, lets be honest, alot of them escape through holidays. The judge can excuse you if you have a holiday booked during the trial, so what do most of the celebrities (im guessing) do? If they get called to jury, they'll book a holiday, because, well they can afford to just go on holiday.

Answer 4

Yes, they have to report for jury duty and serve if selected but this is often waived for celebrities because their presence can disrupt the trial. Usually they're dismissed without even showing up (anyone can be dismissed without showing up if you call the Clerk of the Court and have a good reason, like you broke your back and won't be out of the hospital for a year, or you are serving in the Military and will be out of the country). If they're not dismissed right off, they're usually dismissed by the attorneys before the jury is selected, because having a celebrity on the jury could distract jurors and be easy grounds for an appeal.

Answer 5

Until recently, there were very many persons who were exempt from Jury duty, including lawyers, vets, clerics and so on. That all changed about two years ago and now, in theory very few people are exempt (I can list them, but it's on the web). Celebs in prison are exempt; as are those in mental institutions. You cannot be 'released' by the prosecutor or the defence in the UK, celeb or not; you can be 'challenged for cause' in very limited circumstances (related to a witness, close friend of the judge &c) - only the judge can 'release' you and the judge will not release a serving jury-member becasue he/she happens to be famous. So the short answer is 'yes' and any alternative answer is wrong.

Answer 6

Yes, they have to serve jury duty.

And STOP being rude to Americans; this is a site based in America. All English language questions are posted together. You don't like it, stop coming here or complain to Yahoo itself.

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Answer 8

I would say most celebrities would be released by either the prosecutor or the defence. They would be worried that the celebrity would unduly influence the other jury member just on the basis of their celebrity status.

Answer 9

Yeah, didn't you see Shilpa Shetty calling that the Bailiff a raciest and then the defendant, then another Jury member? All the papers wanted the story, so she gave it to the highest bidder. Money for old rope.

Answer 10

Yes they do unless they are over 70 or don't qualify on any of the other reasons. There are an awsome amount of celebrities out there

Answer 11

Yes