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Al Roker left the 'Today' show mid-broadcast on September 28 to fulfill jury duty, with Dylan Dreyer filling in for the remainder of the morning. Roker confirmed the reason via Instagram, promising to return the next day.
Al Roker left the 'Today' show mid-broadcast on September 28 to fulfill jury duty, with Dylan Dreyer filling in for the remainder of the morning.
Al Roker left the 'Today' show early on Monday, September 28, to fulfill jury duty. Dylan Dreyer filled in for the remainder of the broadcast, and Roker confirmed the reason via Instagram, promising to return the next day.
Al Roker left the 'Today' show mid-broadcast on Monday, September 28, to fulfill jury duty. Dylan Dreyer and Kaylee Hartung filled in for him, with Roker expected to return the next day.
Al Roker left the 'Today' show mid-broadcast on September 28 to fulfill jury duty, with Dylan Dreyer and Kaylee Hartung filling in for him. Roker confirmed the reason via Instagram, noting his return the next day.
Sunny Hostin claimed on 'The View' that she was the lone holdout juror in the 1991 Daniel Rakowitz trial, but The New York Post reports that contemporaneous sources and a law enforcement official identify the holdout as an unemployed man, not Hostin.
Sunny Hostin revealed on The View that she was the lone holdout juror in the 1991 trial of Daniel Rakowitz, the 'Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.' Her revelation came during a discussion about the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, where she defended the insanity defense. Hostin confirmed she was the juror who prevented a guilty verdict in the Rakowitz case, leading to his acquittal by reason of insanity.
A Kansas City bride, Katrina Badowski, was summoned to a week of jury duty starting the same day as her destination wedding in Rome; after emailing the court, she was excused from service, avoiding penalties, and later married Billie Rodriguez, with the moment going viral on TikTok.
Governor JB Pritzker signed 87 bills, including a cash-acceptance requirement for most retailers on purchases under $500 with exemptions and a mandate for employers to pay employees their full jury-duty wage (with a 25-employee exemption). The package also covers CPR training updates, higher-education reporting transparency, new human-trafficking resources at rest stops, airport noise studies, and ambulance transport rules for mental-health cases.
Republicans in New Jersey are calling for a bipartisan, subpoena-powered investigation into a widening scandal over automatic voter registration and noncitizens appearing on voter and jury lists, arguing Gov. Sherrill’s internal review is too narrow. Reports say about 75,000 noncitizens were summoned for jury duty, prompting renewed calls to tighten safeguards, remove motor-voter functions from voter rolls, and strengthen audits—with lawmakers urging federal involvement if necessary.
New Jersey summons about 75,000 noncitizens for jury duty each year (average over a three-year period), with safeguards intended to prevent ineligible residents from serving. The figure is linked to a broader dispute over state databases that may misidentify noncitizens as citizens in voter and juror records, highlighted by a DMV data glitch that added roughly 6,600 noncitizens to voter rolls (fewer than 400 have voted). The judiciary handles over a million jury summonses annually and screens citizenship through questionnaires, orientation, and jury selection.
Amazon renews the prank-realist series Jury Duty for a third season after airing Season 2—Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat—with Anthony Norman joining Ronald Gladden as an unsuspecting juror in a format where actors play every role around a fake trial; renewal discussions began earlier this year, and it’s not yet clear if the original creative team will return or what the new season’s setting will be.
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WIRED reviews Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, the second season of Prime Video’s docu-comedy that puts a real temp worker into a staged corporate retreat. Anthony navigates pranks, HR antics, and leadership tests as Dougie Jr. tries to prove himself, while the show blends office chaos with moments of genuine connection, suggesting work can feel meaningful even amid layoffs and AI disruption.
Season 2 of Jury Duty moves from a jury room to a company retreat, but the discovery-driven thrill of the original is largely lost as the protagonist Anthony is too benign and the staff’s conflict is minimized, yielding a saccharine, less engaging arc despite a strong cast; the reviewer grades it a C and notes the change in setting dampens the show’s edge.