Curious: How Many Here Have Actually Served On A Jury ?

[inthewind21]

40. I have

and it too was a murder trial. And I too experience the same as you did with the other jurors just wanting to get out of there and not taking it seriously. I smoked with the Bailiff to blow off the steam. It was mind boggling that many of them were more concerned with how the defendant looked and the inconvenience to their lives to be bothered with actually doing what they were there for. Me personally, I could NOT vote to put someone away for life without much deliberation and careful consideration and rock solid evidence. The prosecutor DID NOT make their case. The ME could NOT tell us for certain the remains found were even the woman they were claiming this man murdered. So myself and 3 others voted "not guilty" But alas, 8 of the 12 were willing to hand him a life sentence so they could get out of there. We deadlocked and a mistrial was declared. That one has kept me awake many times over the years at just how casually people were willing to convict without a second thought of the human sitting in the defendant chair because it was disrupting their daily lives.