Darien, Connecticut – A father in Connecticut couldn’t believe it when his 4-year-old daughter received a jury duty notice.
The dreaded jury notice arrived Monday with a stern reminder: This is a summons, not an invitation.
Dr. Omar Al-Ibrahimi from Darien assumed it was his.
“I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that my name wasn’t on it,” he said. “And then it took me a second to go, ‘Wait a minute, why is my daughter’s name on the jury summons?’
Zara Ebrahimi is one of 550,000 Connecticut residents who are called for jury duty each year.
age? four. works? Preschool student.
As her report deadline of April 15 approached, her father tried to urge her to speed up her civil responsibilities.
“It’s like ‘What is this?’ “And I say: It’s where you listen and decide whether someone is guilty or not guilty,” he said.
He added: “She says: ‘I’m just a child.'”
The judicial branch uses information from the DMV, voter registries, and the Department of Labor and Revenue Services — which is the only department that provides names but not dates of birth.
Al-Ibrahimi said: “I dealt with the matter with a little humor and sent my wife a text message and told her: It looks like Zara will be summoned to the jury.”
Oddly enough, Zara’s siblings, aged 8 and 12, have not yet been called.
Brahimi took to the internet to get her off the hook.
“There was a free text box, so I wrote, ‘I haven’t even finished preschool yet, sorry,’” Al-Ibrahimi said.
Case closed.
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