Summons # Date of Offense Details About the Prohibited Mta Info Form

I don't live in Texas, so I do not know the laws on it. What I do know, however, is that the Constitution precludes a requirement to swear to anything government-related; you may affirm (non-religious). If there is no facility to accomplish that within the form, it is your right, whether legal or not, to leave the Oath unsworn. If you were to stand up for that, get a real good lawyer, and get told you were breaking the law, you could appeal. Given precedent, I would tend to think you'd win, even if you had to appeal multiple times. If it made it to the Supreme Court, you'd almost certainly win. The solution prescribed by whatever court settled the dispute, likely a state court, would be to make it possible to affirm.However, my best piece of advice is to talk to a lawyer.I am not a lawyer. I don't have any sort of degree or tertiary education in law. I have an AP education in Government. I am a teenager, in high school. I cannot stress enough that a college government course and a keen interest therein are my only qualifications.

I cannot answer directly for New Zealand but I would imagine it would be similar to other countries.  My guess is there is something on your ticket that may mention contacting the court for any issues regarding your citation.  If there is not, I would directly contact whatever court you are summoned to and inform them of the issue.  They will be able to point you in the right direction.  If the court cannot help you. Contact the department that wrote you the ticket. Best of luck.

Many years ago, one of my husband’s patients asked us to employ her niece. I didn’t realise at the time, but she has serious learning difficulties.I don’t know (or care) what her IQ is (and as everyone has already pointed out, IQ tests are flawed), but given that they measure logic, spacial recognition and memory, I’m sure that if she were to do one, she’d score extremely low.She was taken by her family to numerous doctors when she failed to develop normally. She doesn’t have any specific pathology, but can’t understand or learn things easily. She struggled to learn to read when she was in her twenties. She told me that she used to be too afraid to answer the phone, make a phone call, or catch a bus.The worst part of life for her seems to be her lack of self-confidence and fear of anything new. Her sense of logic is about the same as a that of a 4 year-old. She’s very emotional about things which wouldn’t worry most of us. She depends on her Catholic faith to make sense of the world.She’s now worked for us for over 20 years and is hard-working, and reliable. She’s most comfortable when she has a routine; answering the phone, looking after the house and family when I am not home, cooking and cleaning. She couldn’t do much of this when she first came, but with time (and patience) she has increased her skills. She has also grown in confidence, as being the employee in the doctor’s house gives her a certain status in this small, rural town.She knows that she forgets things and gets confused, and blames it on her “poor little head.” However, not having any sense of logic, she seems to have no perception of how illogical she is. For example, one day, we ran out of cardboard boxes which we were using for packing china, so I asked her to get some similar ones from the local supermarket. Some time later, she returned dragging an enormous fridge box. It was far bigger than her (she’s not very tall), and even bigger than me (and I’m quite tall). It was hilarious, and I asked her how we could put the china in the box, whether we should toss it in like a basket ball. She didn’t seem to understand, and was quite upset at having to return the box. As funny as it seemed to me (and I’m careful not to laugh at her), I had to realise that she really hadn’t been able to work it out.She tends to react like a child in many ways. If she pours liquid from a tall thin receptacle to shorter wider one, she thinks the quantity has changed. She thinks that I can see what she can see; when I saw that the iron temperature was too high, I warned her about it. While looking at me, she turned the dial down with her thumb, and said “no, it’s already low, look!”If she breaks a plate (which I think is a normal thing to happen, and I have never blamed her for it), she tends to hide the evidence and lie about it. If something happens to disturb her routine she cannot adjust.It’s easy to make her laugh with very simple jokes. This is useful when she’s getting upset about something unimportant (like breaking a plate).And yet she is an incredibly loyal, hard-working, reliable lady. She’s clearly and obviously happy, and tells me that she is. She is capable of looking after herself, catching a bus, keeping her house clean and tidy (though her nearby family keep a close eye on her).I cannot say that she’s typical of people with low intelligence, but I have learned from her something about how the world seems from her perspective.

If you don’t show up and the presiding regional judge is in a bad mood, they will ask the court to send out personal notices that will be served on you by a police officer - usually a rookie who also serves traffic citations and stuff. This will be a summons and will require you to show up before a judge at a given date and time along with all the other people who didn’t show up.If you don’t show up for that, you might be facing a bench warrant which, if you’re lucky, will be enforced on a weekday. If you’re not, they may pull you over and put you in jail until you can see a judge the next morning.But say you show up along with all the other jury notice skippers.Judge: Hello Mr. Questioner. Why didn’t you return the jury notice you got[Your jury notice will be a questionnaire that you fill out and return - if you’re disqualified for some reason you don’t have to go - I’m assuming you didn’t return yours]You: I didn’t get it.Judge: M-Hm. Okay, swear him in. Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?You: Well, OkayJudge: Splendid. Do you live at the address on the jury notice?You: Um, yeah.Judge: Can you say whether or not you got the jury notice?You: Like I said, I didn’t get it.Judge: Mr. Clerk, is there any record that the jury notice came back as undeliverable?Clerk: No, your honor, it wasn’t returned.Judge: Do you actually reside at this address on a regular basis?You: Um, yeahJudge: Does anyone else in your household have access to your mail.You: Um, no not reallyJudge: Are you in the habit of regularly reading your mail?You: Yes.Judge: Well, I guess these things happen. Clerk, when are the next jury sittings?Clerk: Two weeks Monday.Judge: You have any reason why you can’t show up for jury duty that week?You: Um, no.Judge: Splendid. Clerk, please fill out a notice for Mr. Questioner here to show up for jury duty two weeks Monday. I think we’re done here. Next.

THE COMPLETE INCOMPETENCE AND INEFFICIENCY OF OUR MUNICIPAL BODIES IN THE U.S.This morning I received a text message from my mother and it was a picture of a jury summons letter sent to me, in my name. The envelope had HUGE BOLD RED LETTERS on the front that said “Notice of Failure to Respond to Your Jury Summons”. Inside the letter was a list of penalties, fines, and even a threat of jail time for not responding to the jury summons.For those of you who are foreign to the U.S. court system, every U.S. Citizen is required to perform jury duty if summoned after they turn 18. Some people never get called for jury duty (my mother and brother have never once received summons), and some people get letters to do it every two years (me). Which is an entirely different rant altogether. If you don’t respond to the jury duty summons or fail to attend on the day they asked of you, you can face large penalties/fines or face imprisonment. It’s pathetically drastic and excessive. But whatever, civic duty, fuck yeah!ANYWAY, this morning I get this text message and I immediately chuckle because the jury summons is for Los Angeles County and I live and have lived in Portland, OR for over 3 years and also haven’t lived in my mother’s house for over 5 years. I figured, this would be a simple fix, that I would call the Los Angeles County Courts hotline and let them know I’ve moved and they need to update their records per the DMV.The conversation goes like this:*ring, ring* Dial one for english… punch in your jury code…punch in your jury code again…list of options that don’t apply to you…mash the fucking zero button until a representative gets on the line….Operator: Los Angeles County Juror Services, how can I help you?Me: Hi, my mother just notified me that she received a letter in the mail that I have failed to report for jury duty.Operator: So why haven’t you responded?Me: I am, right now, this is the first I hear of it and I think you have your records wrong, I have not lived in Los Angeles County nor California for over three years.Operator: Have you updated your records with the DMV?Me: Yes, I am a permanent Oregon resident and have been for 3 years. I have an Oregon Driver’s license and I am registered to vote in Oregon.Operator: Well, that’s not what our records show.Me: Where do you get your data?Operator: From the California DMV.Me: When was the last time you have updated your data? Because even in the California DMV I have moved from my mother’s house and yet she’s still getting letters from you.Operator: We don’t need to update our data. You need to update us.Me: Huh? I need to call the juror service hotline and let them know I no longer live in California? Why don’t you just update your data with the DMV?Operator: It is your responsibility to update the DMV.Me (as calmly as I could muster): I have updated the DMV, I have an Oregon Driver’s License, you haven’t updated your records.Operator (now having big attitude): You’re the one who hasn’t notified the DMV because our records show that in California you still live at your mother’s address and you’re telling me that you now live in Oregon but we never received proof of that.Me: You’re not understanding me, when I re-register to vote and change my permanent address, it is up to you to update your own records and communicate with the California DMV that has received notice from the Oregon DMV that I no longer live in California. I’ve done my due diligence, your system is inefficient, you’re wasting paper and my time.Operator (now yelling at me): Well, if you want us to update our records you’re going to have to fill out a form and provide proof of Oregon residence via ID and a utility bill.Me: No, I’m not going to do that. You can call the Oregon DMV yourself and verify that I have changed my address years ago and sort this out. I don’t have time for this.Operator: So you want to be in contempt of court for not showing up to your jury duty??You get the gist of this 30 minute phone call. It went around in circles. I would like to say that this woman was just bad at her job or didn’t know the system, but unfortunately, THIS IS THE SYSTEM. The municipal governments throw millions of dollars into a hole that is labeled “bureaucracy” and the red tape is so fucking thick you need a pair of scissors with a 50 carat diamond blade to cut through it. This woman is one of hundreds of interactions I have had living in the U.S. and trying to do my due diligence. Paperwork gets lost, going online is still apparently a nonexistent unicorn for municipal governements, phone operators are rude, everything costs you an arm and a leg. It takes months and sometimes years for you to have an arraignment on a simple traffic violation. I can almost guarantee you that even when I do provide proof of Oregon residence, my mother will still get a jury summons for me at some point in the future.It’s inefficient, it’s a waste of my precious time, it’s expensive, it’s wrong for tax payers to continue to pay for these “services” and it’s quite frankly insulting. There has to be a better way to get things done.

I already had a poor opinion of the jury and court system before I was ever summoned. My experience merely confirmed it.Trial by jury is an anachronism, and in an age where jurors have to send to the judge to ask what a Senator is, it is dangerous. It was a necessary remedy 750 years ago, when Henry II sent royal justices from shire to shire to try cases on the Crown’s behalf. Knowing nothing of local circumstances, the justices had a panel of local men swear to the truth of a matter. Of course it was an improvement over trial by ordeal or combat.Many matters today are simply too complex for reasonable decisions to be rendered by anyone except experts. To think that I might find myself at risk of being deprived of life, liberty, or property by the sort of person who voted for our current President is intolerable.Around 1976, I read Louis Nizer’s My Life in Court. Nizer argued for the plaintiff in a civil case in which a professional had been egregiously negligent. Any reasonable verdict ought to have included enormous damages. In his summation, Nizer said the defendant’s indifference to his professional duty had been little short of criminal.When the verdict was read, the jury found for the plaintiff but, to Nizer’s astonishment, awarded an insultingly trivial sum. When Nizer asked why, it turned out that the whole time, the jury had never understood the difference between a civil and criminal trial. They could not evade the defendant’s obvious guilt, but when Nizer used the word “criminal” in his summation, they feared that if they awarded large damages, this would somehow result in a prison sentence for the defendant.I was summoned for jury duty in 1997 and spent 2 or 3 days reading in the jury room. Finally, I was called.The judge, who had the reputation of being a judicial lightweight whose wealthy family had purchased her judgeship, gave a languid description to the jury, in a barely audible voice, of the difference between a criminal standard of proof (“beyond a reasonable doubt”) and a civil standard (“preponderance of the evidence”). I would be amazed if one in 10 understood what she meant. I was tempted to just speak up and ask them, but of course, I would have been immediately held in contempt.The case was about a traffic accident. The judge allowed one of the attorneys to make a statement before the jurors that, as far as I could tell, immediately prejudiced the case and made a fair trial impossible before it began.Years later, that judge was forced into retirement when it was found that she was conducting her own investigation into a case before her court and actually visiting the home of one of the parties to demand information.The sheriff’s deputy who escorted us to that courtroom was found as a customer in a crack house a few weeks later, in uniform, with his service revolver by his side.This happened in a city of over half a million people.I was called again in 2012. This time, I served for half a day on a grand jury. That, too, was an eye-opener.We were warned that we were not there to try the case, but only to decide, upon presentation of basic facts, if a “true bill” existed (that is, if it seemed there was probable cause to return an indictment and hold a trial). I did not find most of the presentations convincing.For instance, a robbery had occurred at a Walmart. A black man had been apprehended nearby, running. Now he may have been the robber, or perhaps he was someone else altogether. I asked on what basis this black man had been detained. The very polite detective presenting the case said he was sorry, but he had not been involved and was only presenting these facts on someone else’s behalf. I voted “no true bill.” In this, as in the other cases we heard, almost all the jury seemed to simply rubber-stamp whatever the police said.The next witness, a female officer, was not so polite; she seemed to regard any questions as an impertinence. A gun had been found under the hood of a man’s car; it had been assumed it must be his, and his denial of ownership was ignored. I pointed out to the officer that I did not own a gun and asked what was to prevent some gun owner who had committed a crime from placing it under the hood of my car, only to be discovered by a surprised mechanic when I took my car to the dealer for servicing. I don’t recall her answer, only her smart, sarcastic attitude. My overall impression of the process was that the grand jury was expected to uncritically vote a true bill for insubstantial and poorly prepared cases.My third experience was for Federal jury duty. This judge seemed intent on badgering everyone, of any background or persuasion, to acknowledging that they could be objective in judging any case. He made a show of asking for people’s opinions but then simply ignored them. For instance, the case to be cried was a gun crime (but not a violent one), and I told him that my cousin’s two children had been shot to death by their stepfather just a few years before, and the judge still said “But you can be objective in this matter, yes?” I suspect many people answered “Yes” for fear that if they answered otherwise, they would be held in contempt, perhaps even jailed.One poor woman even spoke up and said she had Crohn’s disease, which would make her bathroom needs urgent and immediate, and the judge still said he thought it best if she would serve. I found his forcing her to admit such a thing publicly, disgusting.Despite the judge, the attorneys found ample reason to challenge me, and I was dismissed.I believe cases should be tried before mature, well-informed people of sound judgement and sufficient knowledge to evaluate the evidence. To think that such a group is likely to be discovered in today’s United States by the present jury selection system is simply laughable.

By far, the most common reason for an arrest warrant is missing a court date. You get arrested and get out on bail with a court date for your next appearance, or you get a traffic ticket with a court date on it. Then, when you fail to show up in court, the judge issues a warrant for your arrest.Of course, “orignial charge” arrest warrants are also used. Let’s say I have probable cause to believe you committed a crime, but you’re not available for me to arrest. In that case, I write up my report, and the prosecutor’s office askes a judge for an arrest warrant. If the judge agrees that probable cause exists, the warrant is issued, and the next cop to run across you should arrest you for me. That’s not exactly uncommon, but missing a court date is still, by far, the most common reason to get a warrant issued.I once had an acquaintance who was going through school to be a nurse practitioner. She got sent a jury summons, with a questionaire to fill out and return. She was too busy with school and a family, and she let the questionaire slip her mind. The jury commission sent her another one, giving her another chance. She let that one slip her mind too. She ended up with a warrant out for her arrest with no police officer ever being involved. So, I guess that’s another possibility to add to the list.

It means that, as mountains of research shows, rational processes are not all that powerful in the human brain. People, especially educated ones, deny this or refuse to believe it, despite the decades of science on the subject, because they've grown up priding themselves on being rational and making fun of people who are irrational. You were largely shaped into what you are by Natural Selection, which is not a sentient being with goals. It did not try to make you rational; it did not try to make you serve your best interests. It tends to optimize organisms to reproduce within specific environments. Lots of stuff that's "beneficial" to you is probably stuff you think is wise, but it won't necessarily help you make copies of your DNA, so you're not optimized to do it. Think about how we tell teenagers they're unwise to have sex and get pregnant. Maybe that's true. Unfortunately, their brains and bodies weren't built to be wise. They were build (that is they were optimized) to do exactly what we're telling them to avoid. they and you are living in an environment that's wildly different from the one we're adapted for. Evolution generally moves way slower than human cultural change. Which is why I keep eating candy, even though I know it's bad for me. My brain is saying, "A source of energy! Grab it now in case you don't find any other food for the next few days!" To regularly do stuff that's "beneficial" for you, you'd have to rely most of the time on brain processes that are slow and extremely costly. You often don't, because you're optimized to generally employ cheaper, faster systems that save energy by being based on heuristics (instincts) rather than logic. My guess is that when you don't do the beneficial tasks, what mostly stops you is...- Your body and brain trying to conserve energy = "laziness." Conserving energy is vital to hunter-gatherers. - Pack animal/tribal instincts = "fear of what people will think of you." Tribal people must be concerned with social rank. You're a tribal person, even if you don't live in a tribe.- Sex- Food- Being distracted by stuff the brain is rigged to pay attention to, because in an ancestral environment, the information gained would have likely impacted survival. Examples: a story in which you're wondering what's going to happen next (e.g. a TV show), quick jolts of fear and pleasure (video games, etc), and pattern matching.Also, like most modern people, you're probably sedentary, malnourished, and sleep deprived. It's extremely hard to be rational when your mind and body are under those stresses.Finally, research suggests that willpower is like a battery. Each time you use it, it drains and must be recharged before you can use it again. And all situations draw from the same battery. So, if you stop yourself from eating a cookie, you may not be able to stop yourself from spending too much money on amazon.com, unless a signNow amount of time has passed between the two events. Or, if you refrain from spending too much money, you may not be able to force yourself to fill out those tax forms. You live in a world in which You're bombarded by temptations. Multiple times an hour, you're tempted to buy stuff you shouldn't, eat stuff you shouldn't eat, have sex with people you shouldn't have sex with,  and avoid tedious work you should be doing. Once you've depleted your current store of willpower, you can't simply avoid the next temptation by summoning up more. You don't have any more and won't until you've recharged.