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twelve strangers handed your fate, dragged from couches to decide a life
means A person sworn to serve on a jury, weighing evidence in a trial to help reach a verdict.
from From Anglo-French 'jurour' and Old French 'jureor,' tracing back to Latin 'jurare,' 'to swear an oath' — itself rooted in 'jus,' meaning law or right. So a juror is, at heart, a sworn one: the whole role hangs on that promise to judge honestly. The same Latin oath echoes in 'jury,' 'perjury' (a false oath), and 'conjure' (to swear together).
- daily pay
- some U.S. jurors earn under 20 dollars a day
- ancient roots
- Athens used juries of hundreds, sometimes 500 citizens
- no googling
- jurors jailed for researching cases on their phones
- peremptory power
- lawyers can reject jurors without giving any reason
- sequestered
- some jurors locked in hotels for months, no news
for instance
juror b37 zimmerman trial — anonymous juror from the 2013 george zimmerman acquittal who spoke publicly about the verdict, sparking national controversy