[gmays]

It depends on your court house I guess. I typically just go in the back door so I can be in the waiting room before anyone else (the jury duty line in the front is massive). It's secured, so I just wait for someone else to walk in and follow them in or ask a passerby to let me in. They never ask to see the jury duty slip at the back door, just a metal detector/security search.

Also, there's usually other stuff going on in a courthouse aside from jury duty. For example, there's family law and other offices that you could say you have an appointment there. The key is to just look respectable (clean haircut, nice clothes, nice watch) and confidently state where you're headed. Besides, it's a public building, it's not like it's some secured facility that's illegal to enter.

If you're unsure just google your local courthouse and see if there's anywhere to make appointments, or at the very least see which offices are in there. Then go to the courthouse and if they ask for a reason say you're there to visit soandso (the name/office you got on the website). The worse they can say is no.