The consensus among my engineering co-workers is that engineers never get picked for jury duty
I would broaden that and say that intelligent, analytical people rarely get picked for jury duty
It seems to me that lawyers are looking for jurors who can be swayed and influenced during the trial – not educated people who can coldly analyze facts and draw rational conclusions based on those facts
IMO one of the check boxes for requesting a dismissal on the back of the jury summons should be, “I’m an intelligent, analytical person who won’t be picked for a jury even if I show up.”
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My last experience with jury duty: by the time the lawyers had done their 15 minutes of introducing the case I already knew that the defendant was guilty – it would have been a waste of time and taxpayer money to let this guy have a trial – in my book, if you run from the police (car chase) you are guilty enough to be charged with something – allowing this person a jury trial and expecting that they be presumed innocent is a little bit much for me to swallow – call me the hangin’ juror … yes, I was dismissed from this jury
