Jury Duty in LA

[YudiG]

Mind is spinning thinking about all this....

Here is the sitch:

I live outside the USA year round and visit come the holidays. I do maintain a legal residence in CA by means of filing a tax return. Have always deflected jury summons as a student abroad. Somehow this time they sent me a jury summons that has me appearing before a judge (who supposedly listens and decides on excuses tendered?).

Problem is that while I am in town the morning of the court appearance, I was planning on leaving California the next morning for business for a couple days and already have a ticket 

Hence, a risk that I may be assigned to a case and as they say, there goes Bein Hazmanim 

It seems from the LA Superior Court website that if I can provide the court with a foreign address - which I have and can prove with my property tax bill - they will excuse me.

Will this work easily (or at all)? Anyone have experience/a solution?

TIA!   

[stever]

yes i have experience with a family member, worked like a charm but last year we needed to send mail with the foreign address

[YudiG]

yes i have experience with a family member, worked like a charm but last year we needed to send mail with the foreign address

great! would this be the case even after I registered and received a summons with a specific time before a judge? thx!

[stever]

afair yes

[YudiG]

well, i called the court and followed to thr prompts to file for an excuse...then called back too speak to a live agent who told me "you don't have a court appearance, you filed for an excuse!"

she said that if I live abroad just send in a utility bill and they'll take me off the list...

[stever]

perfect, so it still works