I almost found myself on a jury last year. A big multiple home invasion, burglary, carjacking, & murder case. How big? The actually had two separate jury pools because they couldn't fit all the potentials in even the largest courtroom. Went on day one, didn't get dropped and came back on day two where they combined day one's morning and afternoon survivors. The reading of the witness list took around 45 minutes and they warned us to expect one month to six weeks for the trial. IIRC they picked fifty jurors altogether (12 + 38 alternates). I just barely missed being part of the alternate pool.
Read later that at the end of the first week it finally dawned on the guy that A: his partner had turned on him (with no promise of a reduced sentence), B: the witness list included something on the order of fifty eye witnesses, C: they had multiple items of DNA evidence that had gone through multiple labs, and D: he was up against combined County & State legal teams. At that point he asked if he could still make a deal and plead guilty.
But jury selection lasted almost as long as the one jury i was actually ever on, a DUI/DWI case back in the 90s, which made it to three days.
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.
Read later that at the end of the first week it finally dawned on the guy that A: his partner had turned on him (with no promise of a reduced sentence), B: the witness list included something on the order of fifty eye witnesses, C: they had multiple items of DNA evidence that had gone through multiple labs, and D: he was up against combined County & State legal teams. At that point he asked if he could still make a deal and plead guilty.
But jury selection lasted almost as long as the one jury i was actually ever on, a DUI/DWI case back in the 90s, which made it to three days.
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.