Does being a veteran keep you from serving on a jury?

I was selected for jury duty a couple of month's after returning from Iraq in 2009. My military service wasn't an issue nor even questioned at that time.

I served on jury duty a few years ago. I feel I was selected because of my time in the military.

I am imagine it does just like working in a technical and dangerous occupation does. You will get excluded if you are used to dealing with facts and having to act on that.

I had my O5 serve for jury duty not too long ago. I was surprised by it.

I haven't been called for jury duty since retiring and returning home.

It's possible whatever the hearing was for had a contraindication for association with the military. I was selected for jury duty a couple years back but I was no longer a resident of that state so I wasn't required to attend.

No it should not......

Called three times served none. Drug cases-they don't want 0 tolerance folks.

Yes it did. Twice I was calling upon to to be on a jury. I have the people in place to cover me and wanted to serve. It was even explained to me that the reimbursement would need to be paid back. Dismissed on both occasions and put on the forbidden list.

The "perfect juror" is the one who doesn't think too far into the facts and evidence, does not have expertise in anything that will be represented in the upcoming case, and ultimately swayed by the sob story.

Most of the veterans even the ones that ate crayons, aren't that type of material and have wide range of experience and/or knowledge.

Example: As former EMT and 68W, there never will be the time that I will be serving on the jury duty simply for the fact that I have basic knowledge of trauma when it comes to violent crimes or at least mechanism of injury.