What was that jury thinking? February 25, 2009 3:04 PM  
Subscribe  Have you been on a jury? How do you come to your
decisions?  I'm a prosecutor recently out of law school and I've
started to try misdemeanor cases.  Sometimes after a trial, I
get a chance to ask jurors a question or two, about how they
came to their decision. However, most of the time, people are
bolt as soon as the case is over.  I think it's important to add
that I've never been on a jury so I don't really know what goes
on in there other than what I've seen in movies like "12 Angry
Jurors".  What are your experiences serving on a criminal jury?
Or even just the voire dire process?  What can I do as a
prosecutor to more effectively gain your participation in voire
dire and to present the case to you in trial? For what it's
worth, most of the cases I do are generally shoplifting,
assaults, driving while intoxicated and drug possession cases.
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