I once served on a jury in a case where a guy shot his neighbor over a parking space.
iacrisrmma, while it may be true that in NY you generally only serve one day if you don’t get picked, I don’t think that’s the official policy (unlike Massachusetts, which has a “one day or one trial” rule). The last time I did NY jury duty, I was put on a panel for a medical malpractice case, and as luck would have it, one of the defendants was a doctor I had used. I was sent home that day. Years ago, I sat for several days before being dismissed.
In NY, once you serve, you’re exempt for 6 years, not 8.
Federal jury duty has different rules. I just got excused from Federal jury duty based on something that I don’t think would have gotten me out of NY state jury duty.