The “Jury Duty”, where regular citizens are required to serve as jurors in court, is quite unpopular in the USA. A Twitch streamer managed to evade it by simply being honest.
What is the court date about? In the American legal system, it is usually the jurors who decide on the guilt of a defendant. Citizens can expect to receive a letter every few years notifying them that they have been summoned for jury duty.
This “Jury Duty” is quite unpopular. Therefore, many tips and tricks circulate on how to avoid the obligation. A streamer seems to have unintentionally found a method to get out of it.
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What was the situation? On Twitter/X, shooter streamer Kalei Renay shared on September 5, 2023, that she was sitting in the waiting room for potential jurors. The 23-year-old seemed amused by the idea of having a say in the fate of a person.
How did the streamer get out of it? A few hours later, Kalei updated her fans: “I told them that I am a Twitch streamer and was immediately excused.”
In some comments, she further explained that she initially just indicated that she was self-employed. After further explanations of how it worked, she was discharged from jury duty (via X).
Ironically, she didn’t even try to get out of it, Kalei said. She had actually accepted her fate already. Some of her colleagues have now announced that they will remember the trick for next time.
Although it is not definitively clear what exactly motivated the court to exclude Kalei as a juror, it seems that institutions like these still do not quite know how to deal with such influencers who primarily entertain people online.
In one case with a streamer, this led to an unfortunate misunderstanding:
Twitch streamer accidentally refers to herself as “adult entertainer”, gets rejected by the bank
