A review by kbruneau
A Trial by Jury by D. Graham Burnett

3.0

This is an account of Burnett's experience on the jury for a murder trial. It is not meant to be about the facts of the case, but about how the people on the jury came to their verdict. My curiosity left me wanting more details of the case, but I understand why the author only included what he did. Having served on a jury myself (though for a case not nearly as long or serious as this), I found that Burnett's description of the quandary of the juror (having to make a judgement without being able to ferret out the truth) quite compelling. And the phases the jurors go through as they deliberate, cut off from their families and normal life, are fascinating. This book provides a dose of courtroom reality to temper all those episodes of Law & Order I've watched over the years.