My gut feeling is that
most high paid professionals attempt to weasel out of serving, leaving
custodians, street vendors and clerks with 8th grade educations to fill
the slots.

Last jury I was on (murder) had two sweet little old ladies who sat through the
entire trial and understood not a word of it. Just the basic facts: Who shot
who? Who was the wfie? Who was the girlfriend? Who as the best buddy? After
4 days on trial, NO idea of the basic facts.

After an hour of trying to bring them up to speed on the case, they said "Well,
it's real confusing to both of us so why don't you all talk about it and decide
and we'll go along with your decision." The doddering two spent the rest of
the time in the corner visiting about grandchildren and dead husbands. The
rest of us (who were split whether murder 1 or manslaughter) went along with it
because we figured that any other jury in Tulare county would probably include
one or two or maybe three clueless sweet lttle ole ladies.

The jury deicded on murder 2 (I was the last holdout for murder 1) and the two
old ladies went along with the verdict. The rest of us in the jury just about
fainted with the prosecuiton asked to poll the jury but Gabby and Abby clearly
said "Yes" when asked if the verdict was their considered judgement. I guess
that they were being truthful; It a was as considered a judgment as Gabby and
Abby were capable of.