{"id":47502,"date":"2021-04-08T19:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/older-new-mexicans-can-now-get-out-of-jury-duty-more-easily\/"},"modified":"2021-04-09T01:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:14:50","slug":"older-new-mexicans-can-now-get-out-of-jury-duty-more-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/older-new-mexicans-can-now-get-out-of-jury-duty-more-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"Older New Mexicans can now get out of jury duty more easily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The law applies to state residents age 75 or older who have been summoned to jury duty.<\/p>\n<p>They no longer will be required to submit a sworn, notarized statement if they want to be excused from jury service.<\/p>\n<p>Starting June 18 when the new law takes effect, those qualifying New Mexicans can request an excusal online through the state court system\u2019s jury website.<\/p>\n<p>Another option is to call the local court for more information.<\/p>\n<p>According to Census Bureau population estimates, 7% of New Mexicans are 75 or older. That\u2019s about 153,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>A statewide computer system used by courts for jury management since 2017 can automatically verify a person\u2019s date of birth.<\/p>\n<p>The computer database is updated twice annually from income tax, voter registration and driving records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>law applies to state residents age 75 or older who have been summoned to jury duty. They no longer will be required to submit a sworn, notarized statement if they want to be excused from jury service. Starting June 18 when the new law takes effect, those qualifying New Mexicans can request an excusal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47502"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}