Robert P. Taylor's JuryDuty: reflections on a trial 

These were the jurors chosen for the trial, arranged as they sat in the jury box. (The X is for a juror chosen but, because of repeated lateness after the trial began, dismissed by the judge.) 1997 jury duty differed markedly from that in every earlier year since 1970 in which I'd served in that the jury pool, for the first time, included many citizens from professions previously routinely exempted. For example, this jury above included three attorneys, a profession whose practitioners had always been exempted in earlier years.

These drawings were all done during periods when we were recessed to our juror's back room. This seemed to happen frequently during the trial, while some witness was fetched, while some lengthy legal point was debated at the bench, or while something else the jurors weren't involved in was taken care of. As a number of the images show, many jurors passed such time by reading.

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