[SallyH]

“Quick verdicts usually mean guilty.”

To the contrary. Quick verdicts usually indicate NOT guilty. When the verdict is guilty, a great deal of time is usually spent in fixing the punishment.

[w1andsodidwe]

I disagree. I have been on four juries and all except one were just a couple hours. One was a murder, one was drugs and one was petty theft. We came in guilty on the murder and drug. The petty theft we found innocent of all charges except resisting arrest, but we believed he probably did it, but we needed evidence.

The fourth was a civil case. In California we only needed 9 of 12, and we had trouble getting the 9th juror the agree to guilt, but there is a lessor standard of proof and that can take longer to dig through.