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    Former Presidents: They're Just Like Us! Obama Summoned For Jury Duty

    Barack Obama is to report next month in Cook County, Ill. If selected, he wouldn't be the first high-profile juror — Oprah Winfrey served in a murder trial in 2004.
    by Maggie Penman Oct 28, 2017 2 minutes
    Former President Barack Obama will report for jury duty in Cook County, Ill., in November. / Spencer Platt / Getty Images

    There are plenty of perks to being a former U.S. president: a lifetime salary, a Secret Service entourage and office facilities provided on the taxpayers' dollar. Avoiding jury duty, however, is not one of them.

    "We have a system in Cook County where one serves one time a year

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