r/law • u/bendubberley_ • 15h ago

Legal News The judge in the Lindsay Clancy case is admonishing jurors who are refusing to follow his instructions

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u/TocasLaFlauta 11h ago

My one and only jury duty was for a murder trial, and we were deadlocked. We gave a note after I think 4 days of deliberation, judge asked us to try harder, I think we went 2 or 3 more days and were still deadlocked. After our second note judge declared it a mistrial. We had one holdout who was very smart and felt the case wasn't solid enough. But yea, we also had a few jurors who didn't understand the basic case and were not too bright.

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u/guthepenguin 11h ago

Mine was a personal injury case and we were done in 90 minutes or so after going through it twice. A week of deliberation would have been rough. Do the lawyers and the defendant and everyone just sit in the courtroom all that time and wait? Or do they just have the jury do their thing and gather everyone once a decision is made - if it is?

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u/GrumpyKaeKae 8h ago

They usually are dismissed from court while a jury deliberates. But are "on call" if the jury comes back or the judge needs everyone back in court.

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u/Beaglescout15 8h ago

Mine was also a civil trial and it took us longer to elect a foreperson than to reach the unanimous verdict. We did go back through everything just to make sure we weren't missing anything, but the whole shebang couldn't have been more than an hour.