Inside the Jury Room

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As a writer for a legal journal, I’d love to write an inside scoop of what goes on in a jury room. But, alas, every time I’ve been called for jury duty, I managed to get myself removed by one attorney or another with his peremptory strikes.

Maybe I shouldn’t have confessed to the prosecutor in a criminal case, “I do love acquittals.” Or admitted during a medical malpractice case in which the defense was the patient’s failure to follow instructions that I once left stitches in my leg for over a year, despite instructions to take them out after two weeks.

One way or another, I suspect that nine years of practicing law, and even more writing about will always result in my removal, so I expect that article will never come.

But anyway, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal has written about what it was like to be a juror in the trial of the defendant charged with stalking actress Uma Thurman. Here it is.