[fella]

Having sat on several criminal case juries I was upset when each judge banned us from taking notes during long and complicated proceedings. Making it extremely difficult to recall evidence and do justice during deliberation.

[KarlInOhio]

Having sat on several criminal case juries I was upset when each judge banned us from taking notes during long and complicated proceedings. Making it extremely difficult to recall evidence and do justice during deliberation.

Yikes! The one time I actually got on a jury we were given notepads. The rules were that they would be held by the court overnight if the case went over a day (it didn't) and they would be destroyed after the trial.

On another trial the jury pool was asked during voir dire whether any of us had heard of jury nullification. I was the only one to hold up my hand and the prosecutor asked my what I knew about it. I probably went into way too much detail and the prosecutor said maybe I was on the wrong side of the jury rail. Needless to say I wasn't chosen to be on the jury even though I was in the first twelve in the pool.