When you're summoned for jury duty (basically) 

“When you go to trial, you're putting your fate into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.” -- Comedian Norm Crosby

as someone who lives in a country without jury duty, it's always been such a funny concept to me lmfao

Judge: "Is there any reason you can not serve on the jury?" Me: "I'm clairvoyant and already know the outcome of this case." Judge: "You're dismissed" Me: "I knew you would do that."

“There’s no way there’s an ad in the jury selection process“ got me dead 💀

I'm glad that in the end we got clearance that the person Jaywalking was purposefully walking slow, or else I also would've had a hard time deciding their sentence.

A Zach Star video a day keeps the jury duty away

"Are you capable of being impartial in this case?" I know what jury nullification is "Aaaaand you're out of here, we won't call you back."

"Death penalty' "That is correct' Seems like it was a quiz and Zach passed

"Were you dropped on your head.....as an adult?" Took me out 😂

I've managed to get out of three jury summons because each time they summoned me, I was 5 hours down the road at college. They kept saying they'd call again when I was back in town on break, and i gave them the exact time window I'd be in town. Then they would just not call during that break and wait until I'm already back at school for the next year. After the third time, I guess they gave up.

I was called in for Jury duty in the wrong county, called for the lady to tell me "tough shit, you have to go", spend 3 hours waiting, get called into the courtroom, the judge and prosecution ask "why are you here if you're not part of this county?" and tell me to go back to the waiting room, i wait another 2 hours, and then the court says we can go home since the building had to get shut down for the day because of weather. Good news is I won't be called for like 5 years now since it counted, but fuck that was agonizing lol

Every time I receive a jury form, I have to resist the urge to write in giant letters “You do NOT want me as a juror. I hate everyone equally and will say ‘Guilty’ the entire time.” (I literally received 3 within the span of two years. It was ridiculous.)

The long pause before the fully disappointed "Death penalty" is golden.

I got this letter every year, no joke every year since I turned 18 in a row until the age of 27. That means for a decade I was "randomly selected" for the potential for Jury Duty. Then for 10 years in a row never had to go in for the selection process because I was told that I was not needed. This cycle only ended because I moved out of state. There was a part of me that wonders if there was someone who wanted to go every year and then some other lawyer that was like hell no need tell them to not even come in.. Either way it basically became a ritual because they would always send around the time of my birthday. It was my birthday gift frim the state lol.

As someone who had no idea wtf Jury Duty was. When I got the letter, the very first word that stood out to me was 'Court', afterwhich my immediate reaction was: WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO?!?

My jury duty got dismissed a couple of days ago. I was very happy. If it hadn't, I would've absolutely been one of the people making the process as slow and painful as possible out of pure spite.

I had a classmate this week email the teacher that she would be absent due to jury duty. She even asked for a student exemption before the day off, and they said she had to show up. So she drives there, and the judge or whatever was like “is anyone a student” and she was like “yeah” and he excused her. So she got her $10 for it but when she walked back to her car she had a $15 parking ticket lol

I've been called for jury duty 3 times. The only time I had to go, I sat around while other people got questioned until lunchtime, went to lunch, came back, and then was immediately sent home. Why they couldn't have done that before I spent money on lunch, I'll never know, but at least I didn’t need to serve on a jury.

I feel like this channel is just Zach posting what happens to him in a comedic form and I am here for it... ✋

I got lucky. The judge outright asked "does anyone just not want to be here?" My hand immediately went up, along with the hand of the guy next to me, and we were both dismissed and then we fist bumped.

You: "Jury Nullification!" Lawyer: "You are dismissed and we will never ask you back again."

Literally the first time I didn’t skip through the sponsor just because I felt so bad for him sitting through that whole day and wanted to go through the pain with him

“I remember like it was yesterday-” “I will give you a thousand dollars not to tell this story” “It was November 7th 2023-“ “That was literally yesterday!” 😂😂😂

My wife recently got called for jury duty. We were baffled to realize that being a full-time parent to little kids was not a valid reason to be exempted from jury duty. Like do you want her to bring the kids with her to jury duty? And since we didn't know which day she would have to attend or if she even needed to attend at all for a period of an entire month, we couldn't arrange for a babysitter in advance. I basically just had to tell my work to expect the possibility that I may need to take a day off to watch the kids while she did jury duty. Fortunately, she never had to actually attend, but it was a ridiculous process.

Me: has jury duty all next week Also me: a full time student who can and has opted out.

Wow, I just got a jury notice in the mail a couple of days ago, so this video is right on time. Luckily I'm a student, so I can get out of it pretty easily if I get told to show up. Also, funny that someone got put on trial for jay walking in a state where jay walking isn't illegal anymore lol.

Imagine just being summoned directly by the government to have to judge others, like damn thats a wild ass concept

I was actually summoned for Jury Duty last week and the letter felt exactly like that lmao. Luckily, I'm a full-time college student so I was exempt

So many people act like they are a judge and jury at all times, you'd think they'd relish the opportunity to do it for real

I feel like this is personal. Like he had this experience

"oh my god you actually called"💀😂

I should be currently sleeping, but HERE I AM. Thanks a lot Zach.

If the court employees were this sassy Jury Duty wouldn't be so boring. 😅

I was summoned once for a murder case, I wanted to be in the jury so bad but wasn’t selected Then I got summoned again for a traffic violation and put in no effort and got selected. So dumb lol

Remember kids, if you get jury duty just flip a coin to decide if they’re guilty or not!

the ad read transition is smooth and the skit character is self-aware of the fact... Great one Zach hahahha

Just say that you're aware of jury nullification and you will choose not guilty even though the defendant is guilty because you don't think that jaywalking should be punished.

When the ad in the middle of the video is 1000x more interesting than the ad RU-vid forces in by threatening people with Adblock

Damn he snuck in a punishment video in this jury video

I have been trying to get on jury duty every year since I was 18 years old To get to go sit in an air conditioned room, downtown, judging people, while my lunch is paid for.

If you find the law unjust tell them and tell them that you're refused to cooperate with it. You are allowed to do this it is called jury nullification.

"Then MOVE. TO MARS" 😂 that was golden

if you think its bad being selected try being the judge having to listen to those morning every single day 🤪

The fact that random people can decide stuff like this is absolutely wild to me. Sounds like a recipe for a disaster.

The ending was priceless thank you. It was worth the wait.

Zachs comedic timing is actually incredible

Does being physically incapable of caring less about the result of the trial count as being impartial or emotionally compromised?

I actually wanted to do jury duty, but by the time I finally got a summons, I had to ask to be excused for health reasons. Chronic severe migraines do not a court schedule keep.

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I was in jury duty once. the first day i spent in the waiting room. day 2 i was called at 4pm and they never got to my name. day 3 i said fuck this and showed up to work. still got paid the $80 since legally after day 2 you can not show up to jury duty and its not illegal after you spent 2 days.

Seeing The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck in the books

The first time I had Jury Duty was in the 90s, back then there was no call in you had to show up at the courthouse every day and sit in a huge waiting room with hundreds of other people just in case you were called. One time I sat in the room all day every day for 5 straight days then on the last day I was selected for a jury.

I didn't expect to giggle so hard! I know you had fun with this. 🤣

Video uploaded 10 mins ago. Zach pinned a comment 1 hour ago...We can only assume Zach is showing his life in future tense what a bro.

Jury duty is so funny. "Hey, how about being as incompetent at the law as you are in choosing someone to run a country?"

SMOOTH TRANSITION to the AD! lol ❤

Fu'kin seamless ad read transition, and making it part of the pain in the skit... Genius!

the vids... god damn they are well done. Especially the pimp'n of products... just seemlessly inserted into the narrative... love it soooooooo damn much.

One way I've gotten out of Jury duty is by telling the judge that eye witness testimony is the lowest form of evidence there is and should NEVER be used in court under ANY circumstances. You see, in court eye witness testimony is considered the highest form of evidence. I dont get it either.

“there’s no way there’s an ad.. IN the jury session!” hilarious use of an ad break

That was one of your best videos!

I love how the sponsor is genuinely one of the funniest bits of the video everytime

Channel is so underrated the production value alone is amazing

Love the intro and extrovert energy between the judge and him

Zack, Brilliant as always.

Nicely done Zach, nicely done

Every time I got the jury duty card, it was late because I never check my snail mail, it stacks up for ages sometimes lol. So I'd call them in a panic, and they are always oh no worries, I'll check you off you're fine.

I live in a civil law country. While we do have criminal juries, they're much rarer than in the US, and the prevalence of them in crime/legal shows was always interesting to me. It's rare to be called on jury duty, or at least rarer than in the US. I think the only person who did it was my grandmother 30 something years ago.

I was really expecting the punchline to be that Zach was the one who jaywalked, and this whole thing was his punishment

Zach Star ladies and gentlemen! 👏👏 The only RU-vidr that can trick me into watching a full ad without fast forwarding 😂😂😂

I literally just got done with jury duty today. Just saw the vid today, so timing was incredible!

I think the calling number thing is a nice improvement over pre covid. First time doing jury duty I spent the whole day at the courthouse to never be selected. This time i called the number to not be selected.

Side note, "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman is such a great book

The only youtuber I watch the ad for. The ads dont feel out of place from the skit and still funny. lmao.

This channel is slept on

"well" "fuck you" got me all kinds of fucked up🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"i remember it like it was yesterday" "that was literally yesterday"

Perfect. I now know what to expect when I have to call the court this Friday.

I would love to see a video of just the jurors answering basic questions about their life

One of the best video so far

We thankfully have no juries in my country, but I've always thought jury duty sounds really fun, I wasn't aware it was such a hated concept amongst Americans 😂

"There is a chance he's still alive"

I don't actually skip the ads on this. Well done on all of it!

You do your sponsored segments better than any other RU-vidr I know!

Man i had to stop the video like every 20 seconds because of how hard I laughed

The ad read was honestly the best part of the video

Bro November 7th was my 31st bday and my first show playing in two new bands. I'm gonna love using this clip for random stupid purposes in discord and vr. Always amazing content from you. Love it!

As a person who made it to the last cut of jury duty. This is accurate 😂

i LOVE the "tan taaan" sound that he makes hahaha. So hilarious!!

Love your content keep up the great work

The hammer-gavel at the end! Chef kiss.

What I hate about jury duty is when the judge says thank you for coming on a day out of your lives and busy schedule. 🐂 💩!!! We’re told if we don’t show up it is either a fine or jail wtf??

Best add placement ever.

Man he was ready to go when it was his turn 💪 Seems like a great pick

Legit sat in my bathrobe considering court process while researching prospects for work reasons the same day you come up with this little diddy?

Having had to go to Jury Duty yesterday this is (basically) pretty accurate.

Lol glad I got jury duty so I could relate to this video. But no more please. Once was too much.

This makes jury duty less of a hassle. Almost fun.

Yeah, I never dod jury duty, maybe one day, so idk. Love your content and skits. Great video.

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