re: Whats the best way to get out of Jury Duty?

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Bunch of hypocrite fake patriots in this thread and this country. frick off and leave if you can’t serve.

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Not really.

The "right" to a jury trial is the one thing I think our FFs got wrong.

I don't believe that anything that requires someone else to be compelled to provide it can be a legitimate right, which is why I don't believe health care is a "right."

Now one way to solve that problem—and it would solve all kinds of other problems with our system at the same time—would be to start having professional juries.

Someone could become a professional juror by going through training similar to a paralegal—a couple of years worth of training at a community college, say.

They could learn basic legal and forensic concepts, which would mean that they would be more qualified than your average amateur jury member. They would also do nothing but sit on juries, so a lot of the legal posturing and smoke and mirrors that lawyers currently use wouldn't be nearly as effective on them. They would learn to disregard the show the lawyers put on and be able to focus on the substance of the evidence.

They could also have their voting records regularly reviewed to root out any evidence of bias.

Frankly, I think it's a no-brainer.

But returning to the original point, I don't recognize a jury trial as it currently stands—in which citizens are compelled by the state to participate—as a legitimate "right." I think it's a mistake.