At the conclusion of the Casey Anthony trial, the phone calls started coming in before I even heard there had been a verdict. They all seemed to start the same way: “The jurors just found Casey Anthony innocent! How could they have gotten it so wrong? Isn’t this just further proof that the jury system doesn’t work?”
The fact that the callers phrased these last words — the ones about a possible failure of the jury system — in the form of an unanswered question did little to hide the fact that they had already concluded that jurors in general, and those in the Anthony case in particular, could not be trusted to decide anything of consequence. While I suspect that many lawyers got similar calls, I probably received more than my fair share because I have repeatedly expressed considerable respect for jurors and have very publicly stated my belief that, even in highly complex cases, “jurors generally get it right!”
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