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You're a weasel.

Frankly I think you could use a civics lesson, but I doubt you'd get anything from it.

I do hope that one day you find yourself in a court of law with your world in the balance and have plenty of time to consider the ramifications of facing 12 people with an attitude like yours

You're presupposing that 'sending' a message is somehow more noble than giving aggrieved parties justice, and you're deciding in advance which types of cases are not meritorious and which are worthy of your 'blessing'.

You may well get out of jury duty-- which would be a good thing for this country. Whatever years of education you bothered with were wasted.

And yes, I've served on juries.

I was waiting for a response such as yours to this thread, and was thinking along the same lines.

I have served on a jury before and was amazed at the process. I thought it was a great educational experience as it offered me the chance to take part in our justice system.

I was a bit disgusted with what I witnessed in the voir dire process. Potential jurors were dismissed by the dozens (or so it seemed), not because they did not have potential to do their duty, but because they weaseled out of serving. Some of the excuses they used were not even believable!

We did manage to have one member on our jury who voted according to his own agenda, rather than with the overwhelming evidence placed before us against the defendant. Our foreman basically let everyone know that we were not going to be going anywhere until we all voted together, and after about 30 minutes and another review of the evidence, we finally got a unanimous vote.

Some people are not interested in justice. They just want to work the system to progress their own agenda.