Jury Duty Experiences

dmd77
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:51:02 +0000

I’ve served on one jury–a DUI in Massachusetts. The trial itself was tedious, but when we were finally allowed to debate, one woman spoke up:

“Would someone explain this to me?” she said, with a strong Russian accent, “it’s really up to us to decide if he’s guilty or not? I just became a citizen 6 weeks ago, I never really believed that part.”

At that, the rest of us sat up a little straighter and took our jobs a little more seriously. There were two charges, and we found him guilty on one, and not one the other.