[Mr.Unique]

Nowadays, juries have become a hallmark of our heavily bureaucratized system. Those who have day jobs are eager to avoid serving on juries, mainly because the convoluted rules of procedure and evidence have turned summary trials into week-long events. By and large, only the least offensive -- and not coincidentally, the dumbest -- tend to be selected for juries. As the aphorism goes, the problem with juries is that they are generally composed of the 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty.

Obviously, we should have trial by those that really, really closely follow the story on the news. /s

A recent jury that I was on had a retired military officer, a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, a chef, the wife of a retired cop, a naturalized citizen from Ireland...among others.

I'm curious as to how many folks here ranting about juries have ever served on a jury in a criminal trial.

[Betis70]

I’ve been called to jury duty 3 times, and all the cases were settled out of court.

I was looking forward to the process.