Jury Duty

[tirant]

This week I had jury duty, and got assigned to a trial.

The whole process was very interesting, more details behind the cut for those who care.

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Reading the legal instructions was mostly me btw, which actually changed my mind from "guilty" to "not". My minimal legal experiance apparently showed, and someone asked about it.

The jury as a whole was pretty contemptious of the defense and prosecutor both (obvious flaws in presentation, missing data that the jury would like to have seen), and of the defendant. We all "knew" that he would likely do it again, which made the not guilty pretty hard to swallow for some.

[tirant]

and that was exactly it, he did the act, and even stipulated to that; however, the state failed to prove that he was guilty of the crime.

So he is "not guilty" in the legal sense, and got to walk free. Well, hobble. The greater good of preserving the legal system was upheld.