“The jurors names should be published. There is no reason for secrecy.”
I think Judge Perry made a big mistake when he told the jurors their names would be kept confidential. If they’d known their identities might be revealed after the trial, something tells me they would have taken their sworn duty a lot more seriously and actually looked at the evidence and deliberated before coming up with their verdict. Heck, they might have even paid attention during the whole trial instead of just latching onto Baez’s pack of lies in his opening statement and ignoring what the prosecution presented.
Or maybe they would have just rendered a guilty verdict for the sake of self protection. This way all the prosecution has to say is, “she did it” and rest his case.
It works both ways.