Every lawyer and judge worries about the pernicious effect of rogue and stealth jurors, those who ignore the admonitions of the court to keep an open mind or lie through their teeth to get on a jury. Such jurors are truly a menace to the integrity of the criminal and civil justice systems, and such misconduct must be discouraged in the strongest possible way.
We are seeing far too many cases where jurors—despite very clear instructions from the judge and regardless of the solemn oath they took—are recklessly undermining the very bedrock of our system of justice. Two recent cases illustrate the point.
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