{"id":657874,"date":"2010-02-08T10:53:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=16618"},"modified":"2010-02-08T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:53:21","slug":"man-steals-files-false-accident-report-to-skip-jury-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/657874","title":{"rendered":"Man steals, files false accident report to skip jury duty"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"ROCKFORD, Ill. — Federal authorities in Rockford say a man who reportedly faked an accident to avoid jury duty in U.S. District Court won’t have to sit on a panel.<\/p>\n

Instead, 60-year-old Gerald Lee Mance of Morrison will serve 30 days of home confinement and 90 days of probation. He also must pay a $5,000 fine.<\/p>\n

Mance was found in contempt of federal court Thursday for failure to appear for jury duty. <\/span><\/p>\n

Authorities say Mance appeared for jury duty on Nov. 30, but failed to show up the next day.<\/p>\n

Under questioning during a contempt hearing, Mance admitted that he had stolen a blank traffic accident report form and falsely filled it out to indicate that he had been in a traffic accident with a deer and could not show up in Rockford for jury duty.<\/p>\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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ROCKFORD, Ill. — Federal authorities in Rockford say a man who reportedly faked an accident to avoid jury duty in U.S. District Court won’t have to sit on a panel. Instead, 60-year-old Gerald Lee Mance of Morrison will serve 30 days of home confinement and 90 days of probation. He also must pay a $5,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2L8S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}