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Originally Posted by legion
You won't be called. You're a famous person, and having famous people on juries is usually a distraction for everyone involved in a case. If you are actually put in the jury pool for a specific case, you will be dismissed the second either lawyer finds out what you do for a living.
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When I was a prosecutor my office mate had US Senator Rudy Boschwitz on one of his juries. Voted to acquit, too, the closet commie. I had Duncan McMillan Cargill III on one of my jury pools. His family is tied for 42 on the Forbes 400 list at a cool $7 billion. The judge knew his old man and tossed him before the lawyers got a chance to question him. Every once in a while you get athletes called in. They almost never get seated. As far as I know, no one in Prince's band ever got called. That's about it for local celebrities.
There's not much you can do except bring a book and try to cover yourself as best you can. What happens that day depends on the particular court you're in and the judge you get called to appear before. Most courts try to keep everyone there for at least the initial part where you go through jury selection, so they keep it fair for everyone who has to show up. But most courts now do realize the inconvenience and burden, so they try hard to keep people available by phone as much as possible. The first day will probably be lost, though, because they'll make everyone go through orientation and then sit through stuff.
Good luck. If paying taxes is patriotic, then sitting on jury duty is God's work. The country couldn't function without jurors, so I'm only half kidding.