My experience with jury duty is that if you show any intelligence above 100 then the defense doesn’t want you on the jury. Defense lawyers want dummies on their juries who can be easily swayed toward their cases.
I’ve been a registered voter for 50 years but I’ve only received a jury summons four times in my life: twice when I lived in Maryland and twice when I lived in Virginia. In Maryland, I was a venireman once, and during the two week period of jury service I only had to go to the county courthouse once, and the one trial that was set for jury selection settled that morning. The other time was in August and there were no jury trials scheduled for that two week period.
In Virginia, I had to call into the courthouse on the days appointed in the summons, but did not have to go to the courthouse during either period of jury service.
I’d love to serve on a jury, now that I am slowing down. I would have whatever time it took to do it right. If you’ve got a defendant like Sam Bankman-Fried, then you have an obligation to your neighbors to find him guilty. If you have a defendant like Donald Trump, you owe it to not only your neighbors but to the tens of millions of people who believe in him to refuse to cave in to a corrupt prosecutor. It only takes one person to stop an injustice. “If it is to be, it is up to me”.