What are some reasons I might be disqualified as a juror?
Once you're called to serve, and you get your summons and you're called in to serve, there are many reasons you can be disqualified for the jury. That presupposes of course that they actually get to you and question you and they just haven't already selected enough jurors and they send you home. But if they actually question you and then they decide that they're dismissing you, it can be for any number of reasons. You could not match the profile of either the prosecutor or the defense attorney because they want certain kinds of people to sit on the jury and you don't match that profile. And they have a right to do that, by the way, if they want. Let's say it's a case of a mother in a rage hitting her child so hard that she injures the child, they may not want any mothers with young children on the jury. They may want more mature people or they may want more men and so they may disqualify you for those reasons. Some general reasons why you might be disqualified is if they decide that you might not be able to understand the case. If they think that the case is something that is maybe a little too technical and they aren't quite sure that you would understand that, that would be another reason you would be disqualified.