A guy I worked with was in a federal jury for a case of interstate child pornorgraphy. Said it was the worst couple of weeks of his life having to watch the videos and images every day.
Good luck OP.
A friend was called in for federal jury duty for a mob case.
She was 6 months pregnant at the time.
The first round of jury selection, she was not excused because of the pregnancy.
The second round she was, but only because the trial was expected to take 3 to 4 months.
You're right.Democracy is not a spectator sport.
I got out of it by basically saying it would be unfair for me to sit in judgement of people who were clearly inferior to me.
I thought the mentally disabled were deemed unfit for trial.
They're probably also unfit to sit on a jury though, so that explains it.