Portrait of a Legal Analyst as a Prospective Juror

It was a day I had waited for since I became a legal analyst ten years ago -- no, really, since I became a lawyer 16 years ago. On Tuesday, I was called for jury duty and had a chance, perhaps, to sit as a juror in a case; a chance, perhaps, to finally be inside a jury room after trying from the outside to cover hundreds of jury deliberations. I was, you might otherwise say, the only person at the beautiful, new district courthouse who truly wanted to be selected as a juror. Or so I thought.

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