HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – When Klein resident Kevin Highfield checks his mail, he’s learned to expect one particular envelope — a jury summons.

Highfield says he’s happy to serve, but after receiving two summonses less than a year apart, he reached out to 2 Helps You for answers.

“Turning up for a jury summons is a difficult process for all of us,” Highfield said. “Good citizens like me, we do turn out, we make the effort, but when it starts coming down to every one year or two years, I think that’s quite unreasonable.”

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Highfield, who became a U.S. citizen in 2001 after emigrating from England, says he’s been summoned seven times in the past 20 years — six times in Harris County and once for

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