Yeah, I was really weirded out by all the interviews happening right now and how openly they are discussing what went on behind closed doors.

You're right, but being people who have freedom of speech, there's little that can be done about that.

Unless you start flagging on the people who do the interviews.

Not really. After high profile cases, jurors giving interviews is pretty common. Several jurors spoke about the OJ trial as well.

Imagine losing your job over it due to public backlash.

Buddy, if you lose your job for serving on a Jury, you're gonna retire to your mansion after the lawsuit.

And the jury interviews are not mandatory. I honestly have no idea why these jurors are participating given how unhinged people are about this case. I would have kept my head down and gone the hell home once the case was over, rather than willingly hand my full name over to the media.

And that's why it's a mistrial.

First of all, didn't praise him. Seems like you missed the multiple times in my response I pointed out I wasn't making comment on the correctness of his decision. Whether you just missed it or are deliberately ignoring it for the sake of getting to be a dick online, I can't tell.

Second, I dont know what he did or didn't say (I didn't follow the case, remember?), that's his fault for saying anything about his decision. In fact, that's what my entire post hinged on; the concept that a juror does not and should not be forced to divulge their reasoning. The ability for a juror to disagree with the group is what makes a jury work at all.

Whether or not he committed perjery in this instance is not relevant to my post, which was more a comment on how a juror must be free to disagree with the jury otherwise the whole thing falls apart.

Might be a reason, but that doesn't mean you have to divulge it. That's the whole reason a jury works; each juror can come to their own conclusion. Tautologically that requires them to be able to decide differently than the rest of the group.

Thank you, I'm going crazy in here watching stupid people pull shit out of their ass so confidently.

Like the idiot you responded to who thinks that there aren't any legal rules to being a Juror. How are people upvoting such a stupid statement?

Yeah, a Juror has the ability to choose a verdict, and cannot be coerced into a specific verdict. However, deliberately choosing an unfitting verdict, such as insisting on guilt without evidence or while admitting reasonable doubt, is a violation of the oath you take as a Juror, and it can lead to being perjured.

The Juror in question admitted that there was reasonable doubt in the case, but refused to drop his guilty verdict. This was a direct violation of the law. You cannot legally acknowledge reasonable doubt, but insist on a guilty verdict. There are actually "wrong" choices by a juror. There was an attempt to remove this juror from the case because of his illegal conduct, but the judge decided letting the jury deadlock a third time for a mistrial would be better for some reason.

It's important to note that if it were not for this openly MAGA, law-breaking juror, the rest of the jurors were locked in on acquittal because the evidence points to a psychotic episode, and not a deliberate act of malice.

From what I was told during selection you have to be honest but you cannot be punished for your answers nor can a juror be punished for how they vote.

I mean, from what I've heard, I don't think he makes the holdout look bad. The holdout, as it turns out, was voting guilty. The others were voting based on vibes and social media. Them outing themselves as protecting Lindsay Clancy... certainly a wild choice IMO. If my understanding is correct, It's the same level as crazy as denying the Jan 6th insurrection. Or the Epstein files don't exist or aren't actually that important.

Yeah, no the chance to remove a juror is lonnng past. There is nothing that can be done to them now.

I see what you did there

Exactly. And a lot of that comes from unaddressed trauma as a child.

Real trauma, not TikTok trauma

https://youtu.be/3QtoaoMYzMU

The expert in this case was a qualified and practicing psychologist, but if you looked it up first you wouldn't make stupid statements.

Imbecile, see I can do that too