Jury service - Day 7

Reading day. Finished one book, started a second. So good.

While sitting in the lovely, cool, quiet upstairs jury lounge, I overheard the conversation of a few jurors who had just been discharged from their case, which turns out to have been another rape case, and took them about 6 hours to decide on a Guilty verdict. It was fascinating to hear exactly the same discussion on their lips as we had yesterday; how hard everyone had worked to make sure of his guilt, how anxious they had all been about the responsibilty, how little they'd wanted a trial of that nature and how diligently they had applied themselves regardless. It certainly boosts my faith in the general populace an iota that 24 random people all faced with the same stressful task could manage it so well.