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Great story.
I was one of two jurors that held out on convicting a person of rape, it seemed to me that most other jurors were willing to convict a person on very weak evidence just so they could move on with their life's.
This person was accused of raping his ex partner with whom he had a child and it all happened after he had asked the mother of the child to move to another state where he found work, therefore he was also asking in a round about way for shared custody. She invites over for drinks and dinner at her house and he supposedly allegedly raped her. Next morning she calls a friend then the caps and makes an accusation and goes to the hospital to get a rape test.
When the case was presented to us, the accused rapist had already spend a year in jail waiting for this case to be brought to trial. Lost his job out of state and was facing hard time.
After listening to the evidence, I thought that the case should be resolved in family counseling not sending a person to jail.
Great lesson for me! It appears that lots of jurors do not get paid while serving their civic duty and move fast to convict on weak evidence in order to get back to work.
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