Why I am Now Eager for Jury Duty
A close friend of mine was recently wronged in a terrible way by a scoundrel of a man and then afterward by our own legal system. I'll speak with vagaries to protect the identities, but here's the gist. My friend was taken advantage of by a pathological liar. In order to seek justice, my friend took him to court. The liar was caught committing perjury over a dozen times (literally) while on the stand , and was forced to admit many of his lies in open court, along with having broken contracts and lied to cover his tracks. It seemed like an obvious, cut-and-dried case to prove and vote in favor of my friend. But to everyone's astonishment, the jury sided with the liar. And now my friend is stuck with hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of legal fees (including paying for the shyster's legal fees). It is such a blatant miscarriage of justice, that it almost makes me sick. How did 8 members of a jury come to such a conclusion? Did any one of them have