A mistake from the past - she once discarded a jury summons - comes back to haunt her.

This time, 493 people have answered jury summonses and filled out forms that asked many questions about their attitudes toward race relations.

Included in that figure, some legal experts say, are many people who never respond to jury summonses.

It feels like the season of jury summons, as I just got back from one too.

Each member awkwardly held a piece of paper, a jury summons.

The disintegration of her carefully structured life had begun with the jury summons.

She said her blood pressure had been up since she received the jury summons.

However repeatedly ignoring a jury summons will result in strict penalties.

They read and reread - first their jury summonses, then the day's newspapers.