I did serve on jury one time, but spent most of two weeks sitting around waiting to see if I would be seated on a jury. I got paid $11 for lunch and parking and no my employer did not pay me for lost wages, it was my loss. Take something to do, I got a lot of knitting done while I was there just waiting.
The jury I did get seated on was a drug dealer who sold to three undercover cops on three different occassions, so it was pretty easy call on that one. I acutally felt sorry for the guy cause his defense witnesses were some of his surly friends who reallly didn't help his case at all.
But the fellow jurors were not what I would call a 'jury of my peers'.