SAN JOSE — Who’s that guy wearing flip-flops in the courthouse? None other than San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith, who appeared for jury duty Tuesday in San Jose’s Hall of Justice.

Luckily for 49ers’ fans, Smith was excused without saying a word, receiving a postponement of his civic duty until the end of the football season, one presumes.

Summer training camp for the 49ers is in progress, but the team had Tuesday off.

Taking the back stairs out of the courthouse, Smith, wearing black shorts and a sweat jacket, shook his head as he was followed by a reporter. “Man, you guys are everywhere!” he said.

It just so happened that a hearing in the case of the missing Morgan Hill teenager, Sierra LaMar, had just ended when he was spotted heading to the elevators. Smith had taken part twice in the search for Sierra in the weeks after she disappeared on March 16, dropping off food at the search center and joining volunteers searching in the fields. He seemed unaware of the courthouse coincidence Tuesday.

When asked where he was headed, he replied that he planned to “go home and hang out with my son.”

Smith lives in Los Gatos with his wife, Elizabeth, and son, Hudson, who is 14 months old.

Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at 408-278-3409.