Jury Duty Results

Well my husband wasn't impressed with much of anything at the court. The case was a drug offense (selling heroin to an undercover police officer) and then running away from the police. Although husband didn't think the prosecutor was particularly good, he wasn't impressed with the defense either. He also had a pretty low opinion of his fellow jurors, saying that the loudest one was a computer nerd who wouldn't listen to the other jurors because he didn't like the police. Of course my husband is something of a computer nerd as well. He also agreed that practically everyone has had an unpleasant experience with a police officer no matter how law abiding they might be. But he didn't see any reason at all for the police to lie in this case since it was so penny-ante (it was only $20 worth of drugs even if it was heroin) so he argued that the police were being honest and the drug dealer was lying. After nearly four hours of deliberation following a 90 minute trial presentation, my husband and the only other holdout gave up and agreed to let the accused go. He certainly didn't come home feeling that justice was served or feeling ennobled in any way.