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Criminal

The Juror

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 2008, Sven Berger was chosen to serve on the jury for a murder trial. He says the sentence that he and his fellow jurors handed down “felt like a mistake right away.” Sven talked about what happened next on the podcast Heavyweight, and today, we’re sharing that episode with you. Maurice Chammah originally reported on Sven’s story for The Marshall Project. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast.  We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:13.7

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0:18.4

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0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. In 2008, a man in Texas named Sven Berger got a summons for jury duty.

0:39.4

He was working as a software developer and had recently gotten married. He and his wife had just bought a house

0:46.3

and he says he liked to come home from work and watch Law and Order on TV. He'd seen so much

0:52.0

Law and Order. He thought he knew what to expect from a trial.

0:55.0

During jury selection, he was asked how he felt about the death penalty.

1:01.0

He said that he wasn't strongly for or against it and was

1:05.7

picked to be on the jury. Sven talked about what happened next on one of our favorite podcasts, Heavyweight, a show in which

1:15.8

the host Jonathan Goldstein explores the moments from people's lives that they still have regrets

1:21.2

about.

1:26.0

Today, we're sharing that episode with you.

1:30.0

Here is Jonathan Goldstein.

1:35.0

The case was the state of Texas versus Paul David Story. Story was a 22 year old accused of the murder of Jonas Cherry, the manager of a

1:40.4

mini golf course in Hurst, Texas.

1:43.2

Story and an accomplice, forced Cherry into the back office,

1:47.0

made him unlock the safe and put the money

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