A nice, though expensive, victory or sorts ... though maybe not for society at large.
I got excused from service and (a part from the annoyance of the voir dire process) it is likely a repeatable performance. I discovered just how perverse the incentives are for jury service. There is a huge economic incentive for people to try and get out. So wide spread is this incentive that they had a parade of pep talk speakers (including a judge) to talk to us about the importance of our service. Of course, society has put a specific monetary value to our jury service: $15 a day (excluding the first day of service). The court's answer to this: emphasize severe punishment including transferring those trying to demonstrate bias to discourage attempts to escape jury service to a civil court jury pool in conjunction with pep talks (mainly showing how those who are successful conscripted in juries have so much time on their hands and so little to do in their lives that they hold jury service reunions with those with whom they served). It costs many who serve on juries who don't work for the government (or say Boeing) at least $100 a day for the "honor" of performing their civic duty. Ironically, the things that might make one think that would I would be a great jury member make me biased under the law ... apparently severely biased. At least that is the take home message I got.