[jman220]

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The issue with fulfilling this "civic duty" is that most people have full-time jobs, and most people rely on these jobs for income.

When you get called for jury duty, you miss work- and if the trial goes over 3 days or so, you generally start to lose income too.

How these people deal with high profile murder trials that go one for a year or more is beyond me. Are they all independently wealthy, or just unemployed?


1. Be aware that "I can't miss work" is not a valid excuse.
2. Make yourself seem intelligent. Lawyers don't want critical thinkers- they want sheep.
3. If it's a personal injury case, just say that you find the litiguous nature of American society repulsive, and you think that most lawsuits are superfluous. The prosecuting attorney will drop you in a second.

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Even the highest profile, most complicated of murder cases do not take a year or more. They take a few months tops. In most states its much faster (California apparently being the notable exception, their trials seem to take forever). Also, if you're employed by the gov't, at any level, you get paid your normal salary for jury duty. So its not really an economic hardship for any kind of civil servant.