I think we need to make the discussion of jury nullification a requirement in briefing our juries, instead most judges prevent any mention of it whatsoever. The essence of the principle behind it is that our 'peers' can look at a law and say 'that doesn't make sense', thereby asserting the will of the people upon the court system. That scares the hell out of the upper classes and everyone in the judicial system, their fortunes and careers are on the line.

I also agree with you on any prosecution of folks trying to get out of jury duty, it does seem trivial (like weed) compared to so many violent crimes. I'm sure they only do that because if they didn't they would have trouble filling juries.