ABSTRACT
During a trial and the deliberations that follow it, jurors have only two tasks: to understand and to evaluate the evidence. Most jurors find these tasks very challenging.
Being a juror was a terrible thing. I’m not smart and I’m not educated, and I don’t know if it’s right to put a person like me in that position of being a judge. It was awful. I had to think like I’ve never thought before. I had to try to understand words like justice and truth… 1
