I don’t think I would have had a choice.
In terms of halachic issues (if that is why you are asking), I didn’t think there were any, since I spoke to several people about doing jury duty, and no one mentioned a halachic issue. In fact, one person told me that her parents volunteered for jury duty. I know her parents – her father taught me, and he was my sister’s B.Y. high school principal, so while he’s not a poseik, he is someone whom I would trust that if he did it, there probably was no halachic problem with it.
And I think there were other people who told me they did it. It is even very possible that I asked a sheilah, but I don’t remember anymore.
I did try to get out of it but they didn’t accept it.
If I hadn’t asked a sheilah initially, I probably would have asked if I were called up l’maaseh. It is possible that the reason I didn’t ask was because I figured out that I wouldn’t be called up anyhow. I no longer remember all my thought processes at the time.