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I can attest to Jurors just want to go home. I was on a juror for 3 weeks for a federal civil case. It was very interesting, especially when a defense witness called another defense witness a liar. LOL. In the end everyone wanted to just get out of there, I did however read the insurance policy that was at the heart of the lawsuit (ugh so many pages) and found a paragraph that basically said the plaintiff did not have a leg to stand on at all. (not that they would have won even if I did not read that)... Everyone wanted to go home, but in the end we did what we had to do to get it right.
Oh and the plaintiff lawyers made more than a few mistakes in presenting evidence, that did not look too good for them either.
I do not know the details about this, did not even read the short story, but if you go around threatening people with a weapon and you get shot/stabbed/injured/kill I think tough luck you got what you deserve.
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