Juror 12 is adrift. It’s not that he doesn’t care about the contract dispute tediously unfolding in the courtroom. Who knows — he might be the kind of natural leader who can rally 11 wafflers behind closed doors during deliberations. The real problem with this hopelessly distracted juror is his irrepressible urge to grab his BlackBerry, manage his bloated e-mail folder and cram as much business as possible into each recess.
Meet today’s juror, so overloaded with information that he can barely focus on the important things in his own life. Chances are, more than half the jurors on any given panel belong to Generation X or, even worse, Generation Y — raised with a television in every room, surfing the Internet, cell phones in their pockets and iPods in their ears.
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