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Confronting

Bonus: Entertaining the Jury

Confronting

GLASS | Wondery

True Crime, Confronting, Colorado, Society & Culture, Documentary, Goldman, Kim Goldman, Oj Simpson, Confronting Columbine, Exhibit C, Confronting Oj, Amy Over, Rebels, Columbine, Oj, Kim

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The jury in the Trial of the Century was sequestered for almost 9 months, longer than any jury before and since. But what did the jurors do when they weren’t in the jury box. In this bonus episode, jurors David Aldana and Lionel Cryer describe some of the ways the jurors were kept entertained when they weren't in the courtroom. 

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0:00.0

On the last episode, Kim talked with two members of the Simpson criminal jury, Lionel

0:05.2

Cryer and David Aldana.

0:07.2

Now, here's a part of the conversation that wasn't included in the episode, but we think

0:12.7

it's pretty interesting.

0:16.6

One detail we hear about is how long the jurors were sequestered in a hotel.

0:21.8

Nine months, the longest to jury was ever sequestered for a trial in history.

0:27.2

Now the court was very aware of the issue, so Judge Edo tried to provide some relief

0:32.4

through various forms of entertainment.

0:35.1

Here's Lionel Cryer.

0:40.0

Every day they would come up with ideas for entertainment for us, and so they took us

0:44.5

on a lot of field trips.

0:47.3

I would call them field trips that you don't know where you're going, and so they take

0:51.4

you to these places.

0:52.4

And a lot of it was fine, it was great.

0:54.4

I'll say, one day the jury was taken to a Dodger's baseball game where a jerk caught a foul

1:00.6

ball.

1:01.6

Jury David Aldana recalls other types of excursions.

1:05.4

There was two vans, and then it was like if you wanted to go to Target and do some shopping

1:11.1

or something, whoever wanted to go, they hop in the van.

1:14.4

You get to know each other, and this weekend we went, we were on the Good Year Blimp.

1:21.6

All arrived, bored the Good Year Blimp is cool enough.

1:25.0

Each panelist was given a chance to run the controls for a brief time.

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