The one time [1] I was on a jury I was an alternate, so I didn't get to participate in deliberation. That frustrated me, because I heard the chatter in the room during the trial; our defendant also "looked guilty", which I'm certain was code for "is black". I, the youngest person in the room at something under 25, was perfectly willing to challenge that during deliberations, but I didn't get to. (We had been instructed not to discuss the case; others violated that. So rather than getting into it full-on and making it worse, I just kept asking leading questions about what a guilty look looks like and stuff like that.)
[1] Seated twice, but case #2 (civil) was settled between when they seated us and sent us to lunch and when we got back.
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The one time [1] I was on a jury I was an alternate, so I didn't get to participate in deliberation. That frustrated me, because I heard the chatter in the room during the trial; our defendant also "looked guilty", which I'm certain was code for "is black". I, the youngest person in the room at something under 25, was perfectly willing to challenge that during deliberations, but I didn't get to. (We had been instructed not to discuss the case; others violated that. So rather than getting into it full-on and making it worse, I just kept asking leading questions about what a guilty look looks like and stuff like that.)
[1] Seated twice, but case #2 (civil) was settled between when they seated us and sent us to lunch and when we got back.