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While toting a $2,800 Louis Vuitton handbag through security, OPRAH WINFREY proved last week that she is still just one of us folks. The chat-show queen reported for jury duty in Chicago, telling reporters she thought she was "too opinionated" to make an attractive juror. Attorneys disagreed and selected Oprah for a murder trial. Serving for $17.20 a day, the media mogul and her fellow jurors voted to convict after deliberating for just over two hours. Now Oprah plans to tape an episode of her show about the experience, which she called a "huge reality check." Judges...
...System, it seemed, agreed. At 5 p.m. that day, I was no longer a shleppy college student spending a week at home with my parents. I was juror number 10 in the case of People of New York v. Saul Gomez—I sat in the box with a street preacher, a doorman, the teapot from Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast, a Princeton Ph.D student and sundry others. I couldn’t help grinning...
...whom I’d gotten friendly chatting about Harriet Beecher Stowe. Once deliberations started, she alone said she thought Ariane’s testimony was fabricated. I felt betrayed; how could she? I noticed a note she had written to herself: “I was the only [juror in the pool] who confessed faith in Christ.” I almost went crazy. This woman, with her unshakable faith, was going to hang the jury...
...innocent because the prosecution hasn't given us any reason to believe otherwise so far." JUSTIN FALCONER, juror dismissed from the Scott Peterson trial, on whether Peterson is guilty of murdering his wife Laci...
Year in and year out, TV tells stories about cops who put away the bad guys and lawyers who free the innocent. In real life, though, neither group does the putting away or the freeing. We give that job to amateurs--jurors--and early on, the Fox drama The Jury (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.; debuts June 8, 8 p.m. E.T.) shows us what it believes is one of their biggest influences: TV. In one case, although the young defendant's record is sealed, a juror concludes--because of something he saw on a lawyer show--that the accused must have...