freedom? This isn't freedom. "You have the right to be a jury" it's more like "you are forced to be a jury". Do you really want to put your life on the hands of people who were forced and don't care nor do they want to be there? Exactly. Please take your comments on freedom and leave. If you still believe we have freedom, I pity you. TO Anonymous:: Thank you for stating exactly how I feel. This IS NOT a freedom. Anytime you are FORCED to do something against your will, then it is not freedom. I would not want to go on trial with a group of people who don't want to be there. They will do what they need to do on the quickest route to get out of there. Jury selection is very unfair to all concerned. I plan to never serve on a Jury. Why? Boring as anything. I'd rather be at work. As HeatherJoJo said, forced/compulsory anything is not my idea of freedom. I don't register to vote simply because of this. In Ohio, voter registration is used to determine jury eligibility. Supposedly, so are driver's license though very few courts use that database. I'm reasonably safe there and, should it ever come up, I might just have to take a last-minute trip out of state. After enough reschedules, I figure they'll get tired of asking me. I agree an excuse is not reasonable and yet I believe serving jury duty should be for