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Sometimes lone jurors are completely irrational and want to be the center of attention and cajoling, demanding special attention despite the risk of tanking a high-profile trial! Ask me how I know.

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Yup.

Alan Zilberman@alanzilberman.bsky.social

I feel for those jurors. Many years ago, I was a juror for a first degree murder trial where we were 11-1 in favor of not guilty. The holdout just refused to budge, to the point they stopped deliberating altogether. Awful experience. Ultimately, they let the defendant go after several mistrials.

My mother was on a grand jury where everyone agreed on an indictment except one person, who insisted, "nobody SAW him do it" outweighed all the other evidence.