Thread: Jury Service??
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Old 18-01-2008, 07:32   #28
WillowTheWhisp
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Re: Jury Service??

It's odd how some people get called loads of times and others are never called at all. I wonder how they do the selecting.

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post

I was elected foreman of the jury. Basically all eleven of the other jurors thought the woman was guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and I thought she was innocent.

We had to tell the judge we couldn't reach a majority verdict, then I had to stand up and tell the court we'd found her guilty. It was one of the hardest things I've had to do, and I felt like shouting out to the woman that I believed her!
That must have been awful. I would have found it almost impossible to tell the court we'd reached a guilty verdict when I personally didn't feel it was the right verdict. Couldn't you have done a Jimmy Stewart and convinced the rest of them?
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