9-Year-Old Summoned to Jury Duty

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Story Created: Mar 19, 2012 at 4:08 PM EDT

Story Updated: Mar 19, 2012 at 4:08 PM EDT

YARMOUTH, Mass. (AP)--Like many people who get summoned to jury duty, Jacob Clark didn't want to go.
 
But unlike most people, he had a legitimate excuse, he's 9 years old.
 
"I was like, "What's a jury duty?''' Jacob told the Cape Cod Times in response to his summons to appear in Orleans District Court in Massachusetts on April 18.
 
His grandmother told him it was a good excuse to miss a day of school.
 
His dad called the jury commission office to find out what happened. It turns out that someone apparently had typed 1982 for the Yarmouth third-grader's birth year instead of 2002.
 
The mistake was quickly corrected.
 
Massachusetts Jury Commissioner Pamela Wood says a child gets called for jury duty once or twice a year.

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