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Just curious about everyone's jury duty experience.  I was excused from serving on a capital murder case on a sequestered jury yestereday.  It was quite a process and probably would have been a very unique life experience to be selected – but I had already heard about the murder so was excused.

What was your jury selection, duty process?  Did you hate it?  Did you end up serving?

I haven't ever been called for jury duty.  I do think it would be an interesting experience, and it is a civic duty, so don't know that I would mind it.  Plus, I've always enjoyed television shows like CSI, law and order, and such, so it appeals to that as well.

I've never served, and have never been asked. However, I have friends who have gone multiple times.

I was called a while ago for a dog bite case.  I was in the jury box, but rejected because I was an accountant.  Lawyers do not like accountants or engineers because they are too precise. 

I've never served before but jury duty sounds interesting. I imagine it would be a great learning experience to get to know the justice system and current events. I've also heard from "The Office" that they provide free food to people who serve which is always a nice bonus

Got selected for a case once.  We were called back for a later date to commence the case.  Just before the trial started the parties settled.

Other times I sat around for painfully long times watching paint peel off the walls.  Good times!

Got the letter twice. Asked for deferral for being a college student.

I think it'd be really fun – like really, really fun.  But you really do have to sacrifice a lot, potentially for a very long time.  Realistically, it'd be hard to afford life on jury duty.  I think the going rate is less than $50 a day or something here. 

I've been called twice. The first time was right after I had moved out of state so I couldn't do that one. The second time I was put in a pool of jurors but all we had to do was call to see if we had been picked for the smaller pool and I wasn't picked.  I wouldn't mind doing jury duty if I were picked though.

I was on jury duty and I served, I was there for three days.  It was really interesting but I actually was hoping to not be picked.  The only part that sucks is your peers on the jury, there is a lot of interesting people out there that do not see the obvious. We had to go back and forth for a couple of hours to convince a juror of the facts that the other 11 already knew.