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Originally Posted by A930Rocket
What’s your experience?
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I've been called twice and was seated both times. First was a dispute over the value of some property the state "eminent domained" to built I-675. We found for the state.
The second was a murder trial. I don't know why we were there. There was no dispute that the guy killed his wife, and only a weak argument that it was an accident. You don't walk into the bedroom and shoot your wife in the chest 3 times by accident. We found him guilty, but there were some interesting side issues. One juror didn't want to convict him because during the trial a couple of witnesses intimated that the wife was a lesbian. This one juror said, "Well if she was a lesbian she deserved to be shot" and wanted to let him go. Even if that was a legitimate reason to find the guy not guilty it was only these two witnesses making a vague claim that neither one of them tried to back up with anything, but he got really hot under the collar about it.
After the trial was over and they released the jury we were milling around the hallway and that same juror was talking to the prosecutor's mother. (Jean attended all his trials) Turns out one of the jurors was friends with the family of the prosecutor.
That prosecutor is now the governor of the State of Ohio.