It's a ridiculous notion, really.

The idea that twelve adults selected because a judge deemed them relatively honest and lawyers

thought them sufficiently malleable, that they should decide someone's fate with a show

of hands.

Bias and prejudice don't disappear when deliberations start, of course they don't.

Logic and reason don't always reign supreme.

In truth, many verdicts are little more than good faith guesses, based on the evidence

jurors are allowed to see.

But for the most part, it's a system that works.

If not always consistently, and that, of course, is the rubbed.

I had butterflies in my stomach the first day, I would try to case thirty-five years ago

and I had butterflies in my case on this date.

It took more than ten hours for the jury to decide the fates of Chris Latham and Wendy

Moore.

We couldn't understand why some of them didn't feel the same way as the others fell.

In this episode, you'll hear from some of the jurors who rendered those verdicts.

Sounds like that might have been a debate.

Am I right about that?

To hear a remarkable moment of Jail House Redemption, and you may be surprised to learn what's

become of some of the people we've met over the course of this podcast.

The only person I have to make happy is me.

And man, is that liberating?

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