Miami, FL – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appeared at a Miami-Dade County courthouse Monday after being summoned for jury duty.<\/p>\n
MIAMI, Fla. Bezos reported to the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, where Miami-Dade criminal court proceedings are held. <\/p>\n
Video showed the billionaire businessman leaving the courthouse alongside other people after participating in the jury service process.<\/p>\n
Reporters approached Bezos outside the building and asked about his courthouse visit. <\/p>\n
He smiled and waved while walking away but did not answer questions or explain whether he had been considered for a particular case.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately known whether Bezos was selected to serve on a jury. <\/p>\n
Information identifying prospective jurors and linking them to individual cases is generally kept confidential during jury selection.<\/p>\n
Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 and served as the online retailer\u2019s chief executive until 2021. <\/p>\n
He remains the company\u2019s executive chairman.<\/p>\n
He also founded the aerospace company Blue Origin and owns The Washington Post.<\/p>\n
The courthouse appearance followed Bezos\u2019 move back to South Florida.<\/p>\n
He announced in 2023 that he would relocate from the Seattle area to Miami to be closer to his parents and Blue Origin operations.<\/p>\n
Bezos spent part of his childhood in the Miami area and graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School.<\/p>\n
Miami-Dade jury summonses are sent to eligible residents whose names are obtained from state identification and voter registration records.<\/p>\n
Prospective jurors may be questioned by a judge and attorneys before a panel is chosen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami, FL – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appeared at a Miami-Dade County courthouse Monday after being summoned for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[12627,225,227,226,8372,37599,109568,1064],"class_list":["post-402123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-courthouse","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-jurors","tag-jury-duty","tag-miami-dade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}