I’ve already posted what an idiot the OP was, but I thought it fair to mention what my experience with jury duty is.
I’ve never served on a trial jury, although I was called once. I showed up for the cattle call and watched with interest the questions asked of other potential jurors. The trial would be for involuntary manslaughter, with a common-law spouse who was defending herself from attack by her partner. So there were a lot of questions about whether or not you had ever been a victim of domestic abuse, and also about your marital status. One guy answered in the affirmative that yes, he was married, and when asked for how long he replied “This time or cumulative?” And one woman, who said she was married, was asked"Do you prefer to be called Mrs. or Ms.?" In her best chilly voice she answered “It’s Dr.” Even the judge smiled. I didn’t serve on that jury because they got enough jurors before my number came up. But I followed the case in the paper and it lasted only four days, not too much to ask for a case involving life and death.
But I did serve on a federal grand jury, and was that an educational experience! Here in Kansas there are three cities where federal grand juries sit, Topeka, Kansas City, Kansas and Wichita. I live in Topeka, and I really lucked out, as the jury I was called to sat right here in town. We had one guy that had to come over three hundred miles, he lived in the western part of the state and Topeka is far to the east in Kansas. But distance was not an excuse, it is a duty. A grand jury sits for one to three days, once every six weeks, for a year and a half, so you have to be there twelve times. My employer continued to pay my salary, and the feds paid us $40 a day, plus travel expenses. For me that was a piddly amount, about $3 each time, as I lived less than two miles from the courthouse. But the guy from western Kansas got travel money, and a paid for hotel room, and meal expenses as well, since he had to come so far.
I learned things I hadn’t known. For example, a grand jury doesn’t decide guilt or innocence, it just decides whether or not a trial is warranted, based on the information presented. And that decision is based on a majority vote, not unananimity. There were 23 jurors in our group, so that meant at least twelve had to vote for a trial, although offhand our decisions, except in one case, all turned out to be unanimous. The only people allowed to be present are the judge, the court reporter, the federal prosecutor, the person giving evidence, and the jury. Most of the cases presented for consideration were about guns, or drugs, or both, but one was a messy multi-state bankruptcy case, and one was a sexual harrassment charge. The latter was federal rather than state because it occured on a military fort. Two junior high students said a teacher in the post school had tried to fondle them. Those poor girls each had to enter a courtroom full of strangers totally alone, no mother to support them, nothing else. In a situation like that, the system has to have interested responsible citizens, who don’t look on their civic duty as something to be got out of.
Whew. I didn’t realize I was going to go on so long.