Juror Number 1
Appearances
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Episode 03: Connecting the Dots
Every day we would wake up at around 6 a.m. The sheriffs would come knock on our door because they had to take the alarm clocks out of our rooms since they have radios, which could have exposed us to details of the case. We'd have 30 minutes before we went down to the hotel lobby to have breakfast.
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Episode 03: Connecting the Dots
All the TVs in the lobby had to be turned to the Weather Channel so that we wouldn't see any news coverage of the case. I'd never really eat much, but I enjoyed having coffee with everybody in the morning. After breakfast, they would give us an hour of time to get ready for the day, and then we'd be shuttled to the courthouse.
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Episode 03: Connecting the Dots
When we got to the courthouse, we would go to our place that was basically home base, was a conference room where deliberation happened. We would chill out there for like 30 minutes sometimes. I think one day it was actually like almost three hours before they brought us into the courtroom.
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Episode 10: After the Verdict
While the trial was going on, I didn't have super strong emotions about the details of the case themselves. Even with some of the more intense testimony, like the medical examiner, it sort of felt like I was clocked into work and I really didn't have time to sort of process emotionally what I was seeing.
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Episode 10: After the Verdict
It wasn't until after I got home and sort of spent some time by myself for the first time in two weeks that I began to sort of process everything that had happened. I actually realized this as I was driving to work the day after we returned and I sort of started to get a little choked up on the drive.
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Episode 10: After the Verdict
And then after getting to work, when the first person asked me how the trial was, I kind of broke down and started to cry. I tried to hold it together as best I could, but I was a little teary.
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Episode 10: After the Verdict
And so my coworkers told me they would just handle the rest of my caseload for the day since they'd already planned on me being away for the full two weeks and that I should just go home and take some time to process it all.