Well, crapFollow

Wait . . He isn't an ape?!?!

I don't blame him. I mean sh[b][/b]it, I skip out of jury duty every chance I get. Oddly enough my residence is in a different state in which I live and have been summoned 6 times. Yup, skipped out 6 times too. He has the ultimate excuse... "I'm the President, STFU."

I have been on jury duty several times, and there is no IQ check, one just has to hope that the non morons out number the morons and that you do not get a stubborn idiot who thinks "I know he was caught on video tape pistol whipping the deli clerk and he had bragged to his friends that he did it, admitted it to the cops, and was caught trying to break into the cash register he took withhim in his basement, but I think hes not guilty because his grandmas is crying in the the back row and I would not want him to go to jail and make her sad."

I got called once and they got rid of me during voire dire because, well, it is a small, Mississippi town where my dad the liberal defense attorney is well known, and I was currently working at his law firm. I guess the prosecution just assumed I would give a not guilty verdict? *shrug*

I wouldn't try to get out of it though, unless I really had something else going on. I coudn't miss classes for it, for example.

I haven't been called for jury duty in my life, but I'm only 25... My mom got called for jury duty a few years ago, she got weeded out in the first selection by the defense lawyer.. I guess they thought some old white lady wasn't going to be too sympathetic to some young black guy robbing a store and shooting some people.

All I have to say is if you don't serve (when given the chance), don't complain about the verdicts juries hand out.

I have gone in to serve on many occasions and I refused to serve only once when I (a) no longer lived in that county and (b) had served within the past 12 months (and I cannot recall if the rule was you don't have to serve if it has been less then one year or two).

However, I have never even been asked any questions much less selected for a jury. I've been in the room about 3-5 times.

Personally, I think it would set a great precident and show the US public that jury duty is very important if the president did go.

Yep, it would be expensive because of the extra security, yep, his voice might sway other jurors - I know it would be problematic - but the office is a bully plupit. Every action of the president speaks volumes. So do his inactions.

I've been sent forms once or twice but never made it so far as to fill them out and send them back.

I wonder when they'll finally track me down and send me to Attica?