Submitted by appa-ate-momo t3_zz823l in explainlikeimfive
nstickels t1_j2a3wh7 wrote
Reply to comment by LochFarquar in ELI5: Why aren't there more hung juries? by appa-ate-momo
This right here. Imagine you are on jury duty with 11 other people and you are sequestered, meaning you are not allowed contact to the outside world, you are not allowed to go to work, you aren’t allowed to see your family or friends. And for all of this, you are making a whole $20 per day. These 11 other people all agree the person is guilty, but you don’t agree. They all want to leave. You want to leave. You are the only reason they can’t leave.
So first they are probably going to ask you why you don’t agree. Then you will need to layout why. The others will all go over your reasons and for each reason, try to explain why they disagree. This process will repeat all day every day until you agree with them. Yes, you could hold out for several days to weeks and eventually have it declared a hung jury. In most cases though, instead of having your every thought picked apart and analyzed over and over all day for days on end, you will end up agreeing just to make it stop.
GovernorSan t1_j2axwr3 wrote
Sounds like 12 Angry Men was a lot closer to reality than one might think, except the one guy who thought he was innocent managed to convince the other 11 who voted guilty.
Frix t1_j2fdskt wrote
It's a nice movie, but not at all realistic with how a jury actually works.
Juror number 12 broke the law on multiple occasions.
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