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by beardyw 526 days ago
The other members of the jury didn't inspire me. I was on several small cases. In one the foreman of the jury kept on about how his bike had been stolen, which was of course entirely irrelevant, though I felt he wanted a guilty verdict just to make up for it.

In one, we hadn't elected a foreman, but the clerk of the court came up to me and said "You are the foreman, the judge is instructing you to find the defendant not guilty. How do you find him?" I shrugged and said "Not guilty". She she said "Is that the finding of you all." I wondered if I should turn around and take vote, but decided not. "Yes" I said. Jury dismissed.