Posted by caraher on June 8, 2005, at 18:14:17
In reply to Re: Jury Duty » fallsfall, posted by AuntieMel on June 8, 2005, at 8:55:36
I've been on a couple myself, all small-time cases. My wife did a long stint that included a murder trial and a malpractice case!
My duty was to show 4 consecutive weeks for one-day trials. The first case involved assault and battery with a pizza! The first thing we jurors did when we entered the room for deliberations was to start laughing!
Another week I was on the jury for a shoplifting case. Of the 3 defendants only one had any actual store goods with her when security picked them up, and one was in a different store! Two of the jurors had been on a jury with me before and one revealed, after our deliberations, that her boyfriend, who does some kind of legal work, tells her "they're all guilty." Well, there she was and in the initial poll she voted "guilty" for all three defendants! That pissed me off because to my mind there was one defendant who couldn't possibly be found guilty. In the end we found one guilty and the other two not guilty, but it took a bit of a confrontation between me and the "hanging juror" to get it done.
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