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Juries are not the brightest bunch. Anyone with even the most fleeting ability for critical thought can avoid jury duty. This is by design, of course.

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Some people choose to serve on juries out of a sense of civic responsibility and don’t seek exclusion.

Why would I believe that happens to any measurable extent? I mean, sounds nice but it also sounds like a fairy tale.

That oneself and one’s peers are smart and most everyone else is an idiot is an even more enticing fairy tale.

That’s not even close to my point.

A couple years ago the only reason I wasn't on a jury was because I wasn't one of the people whose name was randomly drawn, after they'd filtered out everybody who was unable to serve or had other conflicts that would make them unfit (such as 'visceral opinions about the nature of the charges').

Could I have gotten out of it? Sure. Could I have gotten out of it without lying under oath? I don't see how.

“without lying under oath”

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