This is the best advice ever seen on this forum. Yes it's a pain in the ass to go to jury duty. However, if you ever get caught up in the meat grinder that is the justice system you better hope there are sane people on the jury.
When I served on the Dallas County Grand Jury many moons ago, many of my fellow jurors were amazed at some of the cases brought before us. We no-billed a number of them because they were stupid. I'd imagine there would be several of these people in jail or with criminal records had they gone directly to trial being judged by some of the nitwits in the Central Jury Room. One doesn't want to leave their fate in the hands of some of those people.
Do your civic duty and serve when summoned. Over the years I've been called many time but only chosen for a jury 1-2 times. Most of the time you never get chosen as the cases settle and it costs 1 day of your time.
